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
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On 8/29/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what is mplayer
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
... 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,
