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playing *.mkv HD 100% cpu usage

Asked by vinodh

Hi my cpu having
Intel Pentium 1.7Ghz processor
onboard Intel Graphic Chip Set 32Mb
1gb 800Mhz ddr1 RAM
17inch monitor 1024 Resolution
ubuntu 10.4

While playing *.mkv file like 720 or 1080 hd movies movies is played kinda striking often patched. Is does not play smooth with respect to audio and video and freezes images and audio. It uses 100% cpu. Is that any way to reduce cpu usage and play *.mkv movie with my current system configuration. The ways like accelerated on-board graphics hardware or updating driver.

Thanks in Advance

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

Does it play any better with other video players than Totem, such as VLC?

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vinodh (vinodh-it) said : 		#2

While playing *.mkv with totem, application automatically closes after half minute, But with vlc it play with above mentioned problem!

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#3

When you say that Totem closes, do you mean that it stops playing the video, or do you mean that the program actually stops running altogether?

Does this happen with all .mkv files, or just with a specific .mkv file?

If you've only tried it with one file, can you obtain another .mkv file and try with that (in both players)?

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vinodh (vinodh-it) said : 		#4

The totem abruptly closes application itself. Because of cpu 100% usage, but I don't have another mkv file. I try to download and check. Also I want to know is that any way my on board chip-set shares my cpu load, like accelerating hardware or some thing like driver upgrade which solves my issue.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#5

actionparsnip's advice in https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+question/142623 might be helpful. If not (or you need help with it), please post again.

But I suspect that your .mkv file might just be corrupted. It is possible that Totem and VLC (or a codec they both use) contains a bug that causes it not to properly handle .mkv files that are corrupted in a certain way. Can you obtain another .mkv file, and see if it works? The .mkv file you have wouldn't happen to be non-confidential and freely redistributable, would it? (If so, you could upload it somewhere, and I could try opening it.)

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