Dale writes: > When I first built this rig, I ran into this issue as well. What I did > was tell smplayer, in my case, to cache more of the video. I have mine > set to cache 6Mbs and it plays fine even on HD videos.
I have cache = 131072 and cache-min=20.0 in .mplayer/config. That's 128MB, this should be enough. Got this hint by James Broadhead some months ago in this thread. > Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix > was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and > such. May be worth thinking about at least. That was Walter Dnes, also in thos thread. But everything should be quite optimized here, with: CFLAGS="-pipe -march=amdfam10 -O2 \ -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block \ -msse -msse2 -msse3 -msse4a -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -m3dnow \ -mcx16 -msahf -maes -mpclmul -mpopcnt -mabm -mlwp -mavx \ --param l1-cache-size=16 \ --param l1-cache-line-size=64 \ --param l2-cache-size=2048" And I do not have high CPU load when playing movies. Wonko