terrible mplayer performance
Ok. I'm stuck. Mplayer's performance is worse on this laptop than it is on my Toshiba running with a half-speed processor. I have attempted all the suggestions I can find re: getting the performance. The video is slow - so it lags the audio by quite a bit. I keep getting "Your processor is too slow..." stuff. What to do? I built mplayer from ports (not package). mplayer-1.0.r20100117_1 My computer is an HP Pavilion dv4 xorg.conf is set up to run the vesa driver. That's how X -configure set it up. I have no idea what graphics device is actually on this machine. dmesg shows: Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Jun 7 10:53:01 MST 2010 nesh...@carmen:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CARMEN amd64 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz (2127.92-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20652 Family = 6 Model = 25 Stepping = 2 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x98e3bd AMD Features=0x28000800 AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 3892748288 (3712 MB) ACPI APIC Table: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 SMT threads cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 5 ... vgapci0: port 0x6050-0x6057 mem 0xd000-0xd03f,0xc000-0xcfff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: on vgapci0 agp0: detected 32764k stolen memory agp0: aperture size is 256M ... == "What did you do?" the man holding the flashlight asked. "I put down a spider," he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. "So it could get away." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: terrible mplayer performance
On Jun 14 2010 15:13, Neil Short wrote: > Ok. I'm stuck. Mplayer's performance is worse on this laptop than it is on my > Toshiba running with a half-speed processor. I have attempted all the > suggestions I can find re: getting the performance. > The video is slow - so it lags the audio by quite a bit. I keep getting "Your > processor is too slow..." stuff. > > What to do? > > I built mplayer from ports (not package). > mplayer-1.0.r20100117_1 > > My computer is an HP Pavilion dv4 > > xorg.conf is set up to run the vesa driver. That's how X -configure set it > up. I have no idea what graphics device is actually on this machine. > > dmesg shows: > Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Jun 7 10:53:01 MST 2010 > nesh...@carmen:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CARMEN amd64 > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz (2127.92-MHz K8-class > CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20652 Family = 6 Model = 25 Stepping = 2 > > Features=0xbfebfbff ,PBE> > > Features2=0x98e3bd > AMD Features=0x28000800 > AMD Features2=0x1 > TSC: P-state invariant > real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) > avail memory = 3892748288 (3712 MB) > ACPI APIC Table: > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs > FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 SMT threads > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 > cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 > cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 5 > ... > vgapci0: port 0x6050-0x6057 mem > 0xd000-0xd03f,0xc000-0xcfff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 > agp0: on vgapci0 > agp0: detected 32764k stolen memory > agp0: aperture size is 256M > ... > == > > "What did you do?" the man holding the flashlight asked. > > "I put down a spider," he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the > beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. "So it could get > away." > I have an i3 M 350 -- the intel drivers do not yet work for this chipset. It's the Intel HM55, probably. To verify, give us the output of pciconf -vl | grep vgapci0 The chip= portion of that has the PCI ID. Mine's 00468086. For now at least, I'm stuck on vesa. But mplayer seems to run fine for me. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: terrible mplayer performance
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:13:38 -0700 (PDT), Neil Short wrote: > Ok. I'm stuck. Mplayer's performance is worse on this laptop than > it is on my Toshiba running with a half-speed processor. I have > attempted all the suggestions I can find re: getting the performance. You should use direct rendering when possible, it seems to be the fastest playback. > The video is slow - so it lags the audio by quite a bit. I keep > getting "Your processor is too slow..." stuff. Try -framedrop or -hardframedrop, but that's not the solution, just a workaround. > What to do? > > I built mplayer from ports (not package). > mplayer-1.0.r20100117_1 > > My computer is an HP Pavilion dv4 > > xorg.conf is set up to run the vesa driver. That's how X -configure > set it up. I have no idea what graphics device is actually on this > machine. This looks like the problem. You should use the correct driver for your graphics card; "vesa" can be seen as "last compatibility option", usually not very performant. > dmesg shows: > Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Jun 7 10:53:01 MST 2010 > nesh...@carmen:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CARMEN amd64 > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz (2127.92-MHz K8-class > CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20652 Family = 6 Model = 25 Stepping = 2 > > Features=0xbfebfbff ,PBE> > > Features2=0x98e3bd > AMD Features=0x28000800 > AMD Features2=0x1 > TSC: P-state invariant > real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) > avail memory = 3892748288 (3712 MB) > ACPI APIC Table: > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs > FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 SMT threads > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 > cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 > cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 5 > ... > vgapci0: port 0x6050-0x6057 mem > 0xd000-0xd03f,0xc000-0xcfff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 > agp0: on vgapci0 > agp0: detected 32764k stolen memory > agp0: aperture size is 256M > ... > == You have a multicore processor and 4 GB of RAM and video playback is slow? Impossible! My P2/300 with 512 MB RAM plays video without any problems (running FreeBSD 5 and who knows what old version of mplayer)... Check the output of "pciconf -lv" to see what identification of your graphics hardware is output. Then change xorg.conf to use the proper driver for this. After this change (and a restart of X), mplayer should use the correct output driver. You can enter "mplayer -vo help" to get a list of the available output drivers (e. g. xv, x11, gl, gl2, dgl, sdl and so on). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: terrible mplayer performance
--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Polytropon wrote: > > > Check the output of "pciconf -lv" to see what > identification of > your graphics hardware is output. result: ... vgap...@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x140a103c chip=0x00468086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = display subclass = VGA ... > Then change xorg.conf to > use > the proper driver for this. After this change (and a > restart of > X), mplayer should use the correct output driver. > > You can enter "mplayer -vo help" to get a list of the > available > output drivers (e. g. xv, x11, gl, gl2, dgl, sdl and so > on). > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: terrible mplayer performance
On Jun 14 2010 21:06, Neil Short wrote: > --- On Mon, 6/14/10, Polytropon wrote: > > > > > > > Check the output of "pciconf -lv" to see what > > identification of > > your graphics hardware is output. > > result: > ... > vgap...@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x140a103c chip=0x00468086 > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > class = display > subclass = VGA > ... > You have exactly the same chipset I do. I have not seen any mention of work being done on the intel driver for this chipset, but I would be glad to lend a hand if someone could direct me on how to begin. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
