[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer 1.0rc2 and ALSA 1.0.9, very slow (-nosound help)

[Uoti Urpala]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 22:06 +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2008, Jason Zhang (SRC) wrote:
> > Whatever media file I play, it's very very slow. It takes about 2-3 seconds
> > to play one video frame. When I add -nosound flag to mplayer, it looks
> > good.

> Most likely your problem is related to slow video decoding and output. If
> you try to play video with sound, mplayer tries to synchronize video with the
> audio track and if the CPU is not fast enough to decode video in realtime, the
> result may look ugly. On the other hand, with audio disabled, you get a very
> smooth *slow motion* video playback without a single frame dropped :)

"2-3 seconds to play one video frame" doesn't sound like something that
could be mistaken for normal playback with -nosound.