random pauses released by pressing a key

[spike1]

Binary package hint: mplayer

Mplayer occasionally freezes. Not total lockup, but more like a pause. Press any key, even alt or shift, and it resumes. If mplayer is using an audio server, the sound continues after the video pause for a second or two as the sound buffer empties. Pressing a key then, the video resumes from the point the sound did.

This is a mild annoyance. I haven't tried rectifying it by taping a key down yet...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: mplayer 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu19
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[spike1 (spike1)]

After some experimentation, I think I've figured out it's not mplayer itself that causes this.
I've also had similar pauses from vlc and totem which led me to try various settings in compiz without success, then killing compiz.real completely and running mplayer without a window manager.

I had no pauses then, the problem seems to be caused by something odd happening at the window manager level.

[David Reagan (jerrac)]

This sounds similar to my problem. I've been using smplayer to watch videos, and it will randomly pause. I have to use the arrow keys to skip back and forth in order to get it to continue playing.