Slow media player

Hi - just a couple of questions

  1. I’m having some probs with the media player. It seems to slow to a
    standstill playing an mpg1
    file that plays fine on Linux, BeOS & windows and becomes almost
    unresponsive. Eventually
    it will repsond to a keyboard request to halt and I can kill it.

I am running SMP RTP on an Abit BP-6 with 2x celery 500 and 320 MB Ram.
Even Windoze runs
OK wiith that much resource behind it!

Surely an app such as this should work OK out of the box?

  1. The 2 CPU load meters on photon always show the same value as each
    other, whatever the
    load level, almost as though there was only 1 CPU. But the system does
    recognise that there are
    2 CPUs on boot up. Any ideas?

Thanks

Graham

In qdn.public.qnxrtp.os Graham O’Connor <goconnor@eservglobal.co.nz> wrote:

I am running SMP RTP on an Abit BP-6 with 2x celery 500 and 320 MB Ram.

Do me a favor. Try it with the non SMP kernel. Does it fall behind and
lockup? I am able to play MPGs wonderfully on P200. Remember, the SMP
kernel is not offically supported in the current beta release of
the Platform.

  1. The 2 CPU load meters on photon always show the same value as each
    other, whatever the
    load level, almost as though there was only 1 CPU. But the system does
    recognise that there are
    2 CPUs on boot up. Any ideas?

They are broken on SMP machines.

chris

cdm@qnx.com > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”

Chris McKillop – Lewis Carroll –
Software Engineer, QSSL
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In qdn.public.qnxrtp.os Graham O’Connor <> goconnor@eservglobal.co.nz
wrote:
I am running SMP RTP on an Abit BP-6 with 2x celery 500 and 320 MB Ram.


Do me a favor. Try it with the non SMP kernel. Does it fall behind and
lockup? I am able to play MPGs wonderfully on P200. Remember, the SMP
kernel is not offically supported in the current beta release of
the Platform.

I have notice that on a busy system (lots of graphic activity) the machine
becomes slow, even the mouse gets jerky. That’s with the same type
of setup as Graham.

  1. The 2 CPU load meters on photon always show the same value as each
    other, whatever the
    load level, almost as though there was only 1 CPU. But the system does
    recognise that there are
    2 CPUs on boot up. Any ideas?


    They are broken on SMP machines.

chris

cdm@qnx.com > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Chris McKillop – Lewis Carroll –
Software Engineer, QSSL

I was told by a few people that SMP worked with mpegsystem.
It is not on the formal test path yet as SMP is a bit unofficial.
I will test this tomorrow to see and let you know what happens.
Jim
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“Chris McKillop” <> cdm@qnx.com> > wrote in message
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In qdn.public.qnxrtp.os Graham O’Connor <> goconnor@eservglobal.co.nz
wrote:
I am running SMP RTP on an Abit BP-6 with 2x celery 500 and 320 MB
Ram.


Do me a favor. Try it with the non SMP kernel. Does it fall behind and
lockup? I am able to play MPGs wonderfully on P200. Remember, the SMP
kernel is not offically supported in the current beta release of
the Platform.


I have notice that on a busy system (lots of graphic activity) the machine
becomes slow, even the mouse gets jerky. That’s with the same type
of setup as Graham.


2) The 2 CPU load meters on photon always show the same value as each
other, whatever the
load level, almost as though there was only 1 CPU. But the system does
recognise that there are
2 CPUs on boot up. Any ideas?


They are broken on SMP machines.

chris




cdm@qnx.com > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Chris McKillop – Lewis Carroll –
Software Engineer, QSSL
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I saw the QNX.MPG file play today on a dual celeron 366.
Ran fine on patch A. Perhaps you should try it again on
patch A. If you still have problems, post again.
Good luck,
Jim
“James Boucher” <jaboucher@home.com> wrote in message
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I was told by a few people that SMP worked with mpegsystem.
It is not on the formal test path yet as SMP is a bit unofficial.
I will test this tomorrow to see and let you know what happens.
Jim
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“Chris McKillop” <> cdm@qnx.com> > wrote in message
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In qdn.public.qnxrtp.os Graham O’Connor <> goconnor@eservglobal.co.nz
wrote:
I am running SMP RTP on an Abit BP-6 with 2x celery 500 and 320 MB
Ram.


Do me a favor. Try it with the non SMP kernel. Does it fall behind
and
lockup? I am able to play MPGs wonderfully on P200. Remember, the
SMP
kernel is not offically supported in the current beta release of
the Platform.


I have notice that on a busy system (lots of graphic activity) the
machine
becomes slow, even the mouse gets jerky. That’s with the same type
of setup as Graham.


2) The 2 CPU load meters on photon always show the same value as
each
other, whatever the
load level, almost as though there was only 1 CPU. But the system
does
recognise that there are
2 CPUs on boot up. Any ideas?


They are broken on SMP machines.

chris




cdm@qnx.com > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Chris McKillop – Lewis Carroll –
Software Engineer, QSSL


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