[MPlayer-users] DVD playback

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:00:42PM +0200, Grigori Goronzy wrote:
> > > mplayer -gui -skin plastic -vo x11 -aid 128 dvd://1
> > > 
> > > This causes the DVD to play using about 80% CPU (user).  Then, after
> > > about 5-10 seconds it goes from 80% user / 0% system to 80% user /
> > > 20% system and the audio starts going more and more out of sync.  If
> > > I hit
> > 
> > imho system time is nothing to do with mplayer, it's your kernel.
> > maybe ide dma / irq unmasking etc (see: hdparm) setting, or your
> > kernel or whatever.
> > 
> > BTW, 80% is too high for your CPU ...
> > 
> > It's about 40% on my AMD Duron 600MHz clocked at 800, with G400.
> > 
> 
> i guess the high cpu load comes from -vo x11. As i see your gfx card is
> a ati mach64, try xvidix. if that doesn't work, dga.

OK, I see ;-) I've not noticed '-vo x11', sorry.

- Gábor