Release: KUbuntu 11.10
smplayer version: 0.6.9-4
Smplayer is basically unusable in the new ubuntu release. When I try to play anything with it, it hangs and its GUI does not respond to any events (mouse click/move, keyboard commands). It can be only killed. However, it seems that mplayer itself is working, i.e. it plays the movie, but this process is out of any control, I can only wait until the end of the movie. Mplayer also works normally when starting it independently from the command line. When the movie is ended, mplayer stops playing, but smplayer continues to hang until killed.
In the system monitor I see that smplayer process uses 100% CPU and its memory usage grows linearly in time.
I tried to look into the smplayer and mplayer logs, but it was not very easy: when smplayer starts to play something it logs a lot of info and hangs immediatly after that. I see only the last pieces of the logs, apparently nothing unusual. I cannot even copy it in full because these log windows do not respond too.
The logs are ended by the lines:
(smplayer) BaseGui:: resizeWindow:: done: mplayerwindow->size: 400,400
(mplayer) VO: [xv] 400x400 => 400x400 Planar YV12
I tried to change the video driver and to turn on/off KWin compositing, but this makes no difference.
Some additional info, probably important. I have found exactly one video file in my collection that smplayer can play without freezing. It is a matroska format file (.mkv), while all others are avi. This single file is played flawlessly. But when I convert it to avi using "mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy" it causes freeze as other avi files.