[MPlayer-users] mplayer says that my computer is too slow

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:19:48PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karol" <troloo at zamoyski.edu.pl>
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer says that my computer is too slow
> 
> 
> > Carl Karsten wrote:
> > >>Hi, I have IBM X21 laptop (PIII 700, 384MB RAM, ATI Rage 4MB) and I've
> > >>installed Fedora Core 2. Then I compiled newest mplayer, everything
> > >>seems fine but the fact, that when I play a movie/videoclip using for
> > >>example SDL mplayer says that my computer is too slow. Does it really
> > >>have such high system requirements? On WindowsXP I didn't have any
> > >>problems with DivX/XviD/MPG. Should I recompile SDL for my machine?
> > > run mplayer -vo xv movie.avi
> > > see if A) it runs and B) how much CPU it uses.
> > >
> > > Post the output from mplayer so we can see what it is doing.
> > Ok, I have some more data about my problem. I don't know if I expressed
> > exactly what is my problem, I'll try to be more specific. I run a movie
> > under X by command
> > mplayer -vo xv /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black\ Eyed\ Peas\ -\ Hey\
> > Mama.mpg
> >
> > And the output looks like this:
> >
> > MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
> >
> > CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 697.4 MHz
> > (Family: 6, Stepping: 10)
> > Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
> > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
> >
> > Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
> > directory
> > Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
> > Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> > '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> > Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> > '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> > Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> > font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> > Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
> > chars)
> > Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
> > Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
> > directory
> > Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such
> > file or directory
> > Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
> >
> > Playing /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama.mpg.
> > LMLM4 Stream Format not found
> > MPEG-PS file format detected.
> > VIDEO:  MPEG1  352x240  (aspect 12)  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
> > ==========================================================================
> > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> > MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done
> > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0 kbit)
> > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
> > ==========================================================================
> > vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local
> > display)
> > ==========================================================================
> > Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
> > VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
> > Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> > Opening video filter: [scale]
> > The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> > VDecoder init failed :(
> > Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
> > Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
> > ==========================================================================
> > Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
> > AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int
> > AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
> > AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
> > Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
> > Starting playback...
> > VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
> > VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > VO: [xv] 352x240 => 352x264 Planar YV12
> >
> >
> > And after a while it goes into something like this:
> >             ************************************************
> >             **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
> 
> > The problem is that top show 10% CPU usage and about 2.1% of memory
> > usage. I'm really sorry for long posts. Hope it can help you.
> >
> 
> 10% for mplayer, or 10% idle?

I would assume the former, on a coppermine 700 with vcd...

> Try to get rid of this:
> > Opening video filter: [scale]

Irrelevant. This was just tried because of mpegpes. When that failed,
scale was dropped.

> > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > VO: [xv] 352x240 => 352x264 Planar YV12
> 
> mplayer -fs -vo xv /mnt/dos-d/Movies/Videoclips/Black\ Eyed\ Peas\ -\ Hey\
> Mama.mpg
> 
> or mplayer -zoom ...

No need. vo_xv was already being used.

Rich