Video Playback Pauses, freezes

My Video playback (iTunes 6.0.5- G4 Laptop 15"
titanium) constantly pauses and freezes at key points
during playback. It will make it approx. half way
through a show, then start jumping and freezing. Any
Suggestions?
Thanks for any help
Ok since discussions have been down all day since I posted, I don't think my post made it on the board, so here it is again:

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My Video playback (iTunes 6.0.5- G4 Laptop 15" titanium) constantly pauses and freezes at key points during playback. It will make it approx. half way through a show, then start jumping and freezing. Any Suggestions?
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no errors and no messages in mplayer's output
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ao=alsa
mixer-channel=Master
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nojoystick=yes
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aadmikep wrote:
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-LT

What codec does your source footage use?
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Where are the source footage and render files located on your computer?
Version of FCS, Mac OS X and QuickTime?

Problems with video playback

Hi all.
My system is: P4 2.6 ghz, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 DDR3 AGP, 1024 mb DDR RAM.
I installed arch.
Also I installed alsa, codecs, gstreamer codecs, vlc, mplayer, totem, gnome, catalyst dirver, etc. All from repos. Default kernel.
During video playback picture freeze in few seconds each 10-15 minutes, but sounds continue playback. In this freezing time, my CPU raise to 100% utilization according gnome cpu monitor. After few seconds of freezing system comes back. It happens each 10-15 minutes. Compiz is off.
I tried to run video using console, I run mplayer, vlc and totem in console, choose video file and playback. Only vlc shows error message from av codec and "(maybe computer too slow?)" message. Other players show nothing about freezing.
Video file - simple video, not HDTV.
A have ubuntu on another HDD, in ubuntu video playback is ok.
My xorg.conf from arch
cat xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
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Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
Load "GLcore"
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
Option "XkbVariant" ",winkeys"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection
# commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used
#Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "Configured Mouse"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "CorePointer"
#EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "UseFastTLS" "1"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Help me, please.
p.s. sorry about my English.
Thanks.
Last edited by skoder (2008-11-30 14:07:11)

I made update.
Now I have catalyst 8.11. I`m testing video playback with different players, it take some time. I`ll write about results.
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Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8de99db>] _ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15ResetASICIfHungEv+0xb/0x20 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8de9977>] _ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15WaitForCompleteEv+0x97/0xf0 [fglrx]
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Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8de811c>] _ZN4Asic7PM4idleENS_15idle_WaitMethodE+0x4c/0x80 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8de1245>] _ZN15QS_PRIVATE_CORE7PM4idleEN4Asic15idle_WaitMethodE+0x35/0x70 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8dce3f1>] _ZN10QS_PRIVATE11synchronizeEv+0x31/0x40 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8dc5cb7>] QSSynchronize+0x17/0x20 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8dcf0b9>] _Z14uQSSynchronizej+0x19/0x20 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8dd780b>] _Z8uCWDDEQCjjjPvjS_+0x3db/0x1260 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8dc51a4>] CMMQS_uCWDDEQC+0x34/0x40 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8d86b92>] firegl_cmmqs_CWDDE_32+0x402/0x4b0 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01c64a6>] proc_get_sb+0x96/0x160
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Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01220d7>] __dequeue_entity+0x57/0xc0
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Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8d85250>] firegl_cmmqs_CWDDE32+0x0/0x140 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8d62717>] firegl_ioctl+0x227/0x2b0 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01c64a6>] proc_get_sb+0x96/0x160
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01c64a6>] proc_get_sb+0x96/0x160
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01c64a6>] proc_get_sb+0x96/0x160
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<f8d576b7>] ip_firegl_ioctl+0x17/0x20 [fglrx]
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01c64a6>] proc_get_sb+0x96/0x160
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c0197038>] vfs_ioctl+0x78/0x90
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01970b7>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x67/0x2f0
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01973a6>] sys_ioctl+0x66/0x70
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c0103ef3>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x33
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian [<c01c64a6>] proc_get_sb+0x96/0x160
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian =======================
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian pubdev:0x1f8f142a0, num of device:-119273289 , name:<NULL>, major 55, minor 0.
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian device 0 : 0xf8e408b7f7d84000 .
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Asic ID:0x9586, revision:0x1a, MMIOReg:0x8f8c60000.
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian FB phys addr: 0xe0000000, MC :0xe0000000, Total FB size :0x10000000.
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian gart table MC:0xeff73000, Physical:0x0, size:0x88000.
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian mc_node :MC_NODE__AGP, total 1 zones
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian MC start:0xd0000000, Physical:0xd0000000, size:0x10000000.
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x2000000, reference count:5, mapping count:0,
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Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0xff73000, reference count:6, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x1000000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0xff73000, size:0x88000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0xfffb000, size:0x1000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0xfffc000, size:0x4000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian mc_node :MC_NODE__GART_CACHEABLE, total 3 zones
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian MC start:0xbf400000, Physical:0x0, size:0x10c00000.
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0xc00000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0xb00000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0xa00000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0x900000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0x200000, size:0x700000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x200000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Dec 3 22:47:33 fabian Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x11000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
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