[MPlayer-users] mplayer WAV dumping is horribly slow

[Jim Hawkins]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Moritz Bunkus wrote:

> > did you try the -benchmark option?
>
> Sure, makes no difference:
>
> time mplayer -benchmark -ao pcm -aofile audio.wav -vo null -vc null \
>   firefly.\(1x04\).jaynestown.nbs.sharereactor.mpg
>
> real    7m41.393s
> user    0m0.340s
> sys     0m0.260s

I found (by accident) if you specify a non-existant vc, eg '-vc none', it
goes a lot quicker.

Jim