Media Player

[steveb357]

KMPlayer causes  my mouse to freeze.  It opens MPlayer to play video, and then both programs freeze along with the mouse.  The only option is to reboot.  Tonight, for the first time, Kaffeine caused the same problem when it was used in a stand alone mode.  IE, I opened Kaffeine and the went to file>open, and the whole thing froze.

Anyone have an idea why this could be happening?

[T6]

the information you gave is not enough to help you, please post more information when posting

please post system specs, desktop in use, if you have compiz or kde4 desktop effects, driver used in the video card

also mention the type of content you tried to open, hd content?  requires a specific codec? (win32 codecs installed?)

was it a dvd?

was it a mkv file?

[steveb357]

the information you gave is not enough to help you, please post more information when posting

please post system specs, desktop in use, if you have compiz or kde4 desktop effects, driver used in the video card

also mention the type of content you tried to open, hd content?  requires a specific codec? (win32 codecs installed?)

was it a dvd?

was it a mkv file?

I am running on a Toshiba laptop, PCLinuxOS, 2009, KDE 3.5, running compiz.  I don't know the video card. 
The problem occurrs upon opening KMPlayer.  It doesn't matter what I plan to play, just opening the player freezes the whole system.  No other player does this.

[ka9yhd]

Steve:
Open a terminal window and type lspci and also lsusb, then please post the output here.

And yes there are some normal people here that will take the time to explain things and help.

[GOTHBITES]

Just wanted to add my two cents also  I too had to uninstall kmplayer.  I thought it was just me lol

[T6]

"Just wanted to add my two cents also  I too had to uninstall kmplayer.  I thought it was just me lol "

it is the first thing i always do if it is installed on the linux distro i have

[Texstar]

Unable to duplicate. Currently watching a V avi episode in KMPlayer.

[GOTHBITES]

Unable to duplicate. Currently watching a V avi episode in KMPlayer.

You know when you do this. It just gives me  all the more reason to start calling you Merlin the wizard of PCLinux.

[Old-Polack]

the information you gave is not enough to help you, please post more information when posting

please post system specs, desktop in use, if you have compiz or kde4 desktop effects, driver used in the video card

also mention the type of content you tried to open, hd content?  requires a specific codec? (win32 codecs installed?)

was it a dvd?

was it a mkv file?

I am running on a Toshiba laptop, PCLinuxOS, 2009, KDE 3.5, running compiz.  I don't know the video card. 
The problem occurrs upon opening KMPlayer.  It doesn't matter what I plan to play, just opening the player freezes the whole system.  No other player does this.

Consider yourself lucky. Any player can bring my system down, either freeze up, or full kernel panic. Sometimes I can get a single file to play, but it's pretty much a guarantee that I can't play two in a row.

My / partition is set to force a file system check every 32 mounts, and I've already had two of those. I haven't rebooted or shut the machine off by choice. Same thing for the beta 1 installation. I had hoped the new kernel would have helped this, but same thing for both. At the moment I'm back on the old upgraded TR5 installation, from which boulders take lessons on stability.

[Texstar]

Unable to duplicate. Currently watching a V avi episode in KMPlayer.


You know when you do this. It just gives me  all the more reason to start calling you Merlin the wizard of PCLinux.

I will try it on a clean install of Beta 2 shortly. Maybe a dependency is missing to make playback possible.