Slow loading of video only (extremely fast load of program itself)

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I know this issue has been reported before, but I have never used the
google bugtrack before. I'm not sure if you can reopen existing "bugs"..

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open gnome-mplayer manually and then open a video (only seems to happen
on videos not yet played.. are they cached?) -or-
2. Just open video with gnome-mplayer from nautilus or similar
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I don't get any unexpected output, just a slow video load time.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Gnome Mplayer v0.9.7 on Debian Sid/Unstable (5.0.2 upgrade)

Please provide any additional information below.

Here is the output of gnome-mplayer -v when opened with no video input:
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sal@hotbox:~$ gnome-mplayer -v
GNOME MPlayer v0.9.7
vo = xv ao = null
Running in single instance mode
Running with GIO support
Master Playback is 1
Master Range is 0 to 64 
Master Current Volume 26, multiplier = 1.562500
Scaled Volume is 40.625000
Using volume of 41.00
You might want to consider upgrading mplayer to a newer version, -volume
option not supported
Using match: type='signal',interface='com.gnome.mplayer'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys'
Proxy connections and Command connected
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I ignored the -volume option, since there is no problem with program
startup, just video loading.. Here is everything following that (when
attempting to load a new video):
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sal@hotbox:~$ gnome-mplayer -v
GNOME MPlayer v0.9.7
vo = xv ao = null
Running in single instance mode
Running with GIO support
Master Playback is 1
Master Range is 0 to 64 
Master Current Volume 26, multiplier = 1.562500
Scaled Volume is 40.625000
Using volume of 41.00
You might want to consider upgrading mplayer to a newer version, -volume
option not supported
Using match: type='signal',interface='com.gnome.mplayer'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys'
Proxy connections and Command connected
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Somewhere near the end of this input, it begins to play normally. In fact,
for the rest of the time I'm watching the video, it's perfect. When I close
the program and re-open it, I can click "Open Recent" and click the video
in question and it loads nearly instantly.. Please feel free to let me know
if there is anything else I can provide. Thank you in advance for your help
and thanks a lot for gnome-mplayer. It's nice to have something that
integrates well instead of that ugly thing they ship with mplayer. :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by salvator...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2009 at 2:54

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Can you try SVN and see if it is any better. Some of the speed of the second 
load may
come from certain libraries now being cached or in memory that were not there 
before.
I have seen that on some other applications that the first load can be slow and 
the
second one is much faster. Also the delay may be due to the loading of the 
metadata
and this has been tuned a little in SVN, so it may be a bit faster.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2009 at 3:43

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Damn. That was fast. Thanks a lot for replying so quickly. Would you mind if I 
tried
the SVN tomorrow and reported the results then? I wasn't expecting a reply 
today and
I'm actually using gnome-mplayer to watch a movie on my big screen in a few 
minutes. ;)

Original comment by salvator...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2009 at 4:20

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Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2009 at 6:34

• Changed state: Fixed