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I have a Ubuntu and movie issue

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2/17/13 at 1:56pm
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I recently went to my dark corner of the house and trimmed up my old p4 movie pc. ( New wires, ram, hdd, pci wireless n card ). I gave my old parts to a friend who needed. Movies have always worked silky smooth before. ( Windows and linux mint ) But now I'm trying to stream 1080p HD mp4-avi over my network with the Iomega ez NAS 2TB with just the latest ubuntu.

My problem: Movies will start out smooth. About 5 minutes into it, it'll start slowing down and chopping. Then I'll see little squares multi coloured. Sometimes it'll freeze completely and won't read the file.

The pc:
Pentium 4 prescott 2.8 Ghz
2 Gb DDR2 ram
Asus Hd 5450 512 MB
40 GB IDE 7200RPM HDD
New wires
PSU
Thermaltake copper headsink with Arctic silver 5

I'm using Prop drivers also.


Please help? smile.gif

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2/17/13 at 2:15pm
What player are you using? Does it happen with a different player?
Also, if you play a 1080p file off your main HDD, is it smooth?


PS: The multi colored squares could be the file skipping. Are the sqares pink or green? If so, check your GPU temps.
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2/17/13 at 4:41pm
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What player are you using? Does it happen with a different player?
Also, if you play a 1080p file off your main HDD, is it smooth?


PS: The multi colored squares could be the file skipping. Are the sqares pink or green? If so, check your GPU temps.

I was using VLC which is my main player. MPlayer skips, chops, and the audio gets out of sync. Off the main HDD is a slight change but my CPU is still getting pinned out. I think there's a CPU and GPU offloading issue here. I've tried different drivers, different methods of installing those drivers..
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2/17/13 at 10:52pm
First reinstall your catalyst drivers. Ununtu installs an ATI driver(fglxr). Get the new ones from ATI
DO NOT try to install a new version over an old one. Remove your existing driver first
Code:
$ sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx.

skip the first command if the file doesn't exist. Then install the new drivers and reboot

Next,

Install "Compizconfig settings manager"
Code:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

In CompizConfig Settings Manager, select "General", then "Composite" & disable "Detect refresh rate"

Change the "Refresh" to your monitor's native refresh rate(check for your monitor)

Back in "General" options, select "OPENGL" & disable "Synch to Vblank"
Let us know if this works smile.gif

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PS: Disable screensaver. It might be trying to kick in during video playback
Code:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver idle-activation-enabled false

Edited by kenpachiroks - 2/17/13 at 10:55pm
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