[Angstrom-distro-users] mplayer woes

[Andrew Zabolotny]

From Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:40:06 +0100
Tim Chick <chick at computergeek.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> It also does a pretty effecient software rotation in fullscreen mode,
> use the -vm option.
Ah, that's pretty useful. Is there somewhere a web page on this, so
that I can ask less stupid questions in future ;)

> In -vm mode it will set the resolution to 320x240, rotate if the
> video is wider than it is tall, and crop to the centre of the video
> if it is more than 320x240.
Interesting though that it seems to leak memory (?) or something, so
that I can watch just one video in a single sessson, trying to run
mplayer second time puts Zaurus into a continuous swapping mode and
usually it's easier just to reset the device. Is there any cure to this?

-- 
Andrew

P.S. Waited patiently until it become at least partialy responsive
(took about 1 hour just to close mplayer :)). Very strange situation:

Tasks:  65 total, 1 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us, 9.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 89.0%wa, 1.2%hi, 0.0%si
Mem:     62364k total, 33328k used, 29036k free, 60k buffers
Swap:        0k total,     0k used,     0k free, 704k cached

PID USER PR VIRT  RES %CPU %MEM    TIME+  GROUP COMMAND
 60 root 10    0    0  6.0  0.0   7:36.15 root  kswapd0

And with 29Mb free it swaps intensively and constantly, almost
impossible to do anything, launching top takes minutes.

It's a mystery to me what kswapd0 does with 29Mb RAM free.
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