cothrige wrote: >I am very new to Gentoo and portage and just beginning to learn to >find my way around. For the most part things have been good, but >MPlayer has proved to be a difficulty. Not in basic functionality >though, but just speed. > >What I did was start with a basic 'emerge -a mplayer' which installed >mplayer and a codec package. Everything seemed very solid and seemed >to work as it should. But when I tested mencoder with a dvd it would >only run at something like 12 or 14 fps. Normally with the same >settings (mencoder dvd://1 -noodml -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts >vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:vbitrate=1800) it goes at about 28-30. I hated to >think about taking three hours to make one pass on a movie encoding >and so unmerged it and compiled myself from source. Now it works >fine. > >I am very curious about what I did wrong, not so much for mplayer as I >have it running fine but rather for a better knowledge of portage and >such. My use flags in /etc/make.conf are this: "gnome kde jpeg gif >tiff dvd dvdr emacs tcltk" in case they are responsible. > >Thanks in advance for any advice. > >Patrick > > Hi, Maybe rebuilding "mplayer" through portage will have the same result. Think you could have a look at 'revdep-rebuild' (man revdep-rebuild). HTH. Rumen
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