I've found using the flag -hardframedrop (or it's something like that anyway) to be helpful when mplayer is playing slowly. Sorry I'm not near a *nix machine atm to find out the exact flag.
--Slosh Gmail headers, yadda yadda yadda On 8/29/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is mplayer outputting to? > > there are various options, you can see what options are compiled into > your system with: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mplayer -vo help > MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5-20050130 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team > CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes > MMX2 supported but disabled > 3DNowExt supported but disabled > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow > > > > Available video output drivers: > xvmc XVideo Motion Compensation > xv X11/Xv > x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) > xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers > gl X11 (OpenGL) > gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version > sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!) > svga SVGAlib > aa AAlib > vesa VESA VBE 2.0 video output > xvidix X11 (VIDIX) > cvidix console VIDIX > null Null video output > mpegpes Mpeg-PES file > yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools > png PNG file > jpeg JPEG file > gif89a animated GIF output > pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file > md5sum md5sum of each frame > > > > you really want it to be using Xv if possible. you can usually tell by > running mplayer from the command line and watching the output. > > you can force xv (if available) by running: > > mplayer -vo xv [plus other options you usually use] > > > > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:05:17 +1200 > Douglas Royds wrote: > > > ... then fails with: > > > > "Too many video packets in the buffer" > > > > Sound plays at full speed, but the picture runs slowly. The DVD in > question > > is not encrypted, being one that I burnt myself (under OSX). It plays OK > > under OSX and WinXP. > > > > I enabled DMA with: > > > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc > > > > This helped enormously, but didn't solve it completely. Sound slowly > > dropped out of synch, then the Too Many Video Packets error. > > > > There should be plenty of horsepower - PIII 1150 with 128Mb RAM. I > > installed mplayer-586. It is a laptop, so I don't know whether NEC has > > strangled it somehow. > > > > Ubuntu Hoary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ======================================================================= > > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > > lost by reason of this transmission. > > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > > other act on the email. > > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > > altered or corrupted during transmission. > > ======================================================================= > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
