[MPlayer-users] DVD Playback sound optimisation

[José M. Fandiño]

Matt wrote:
> 
> I am trying to play back DVDs on my FreeBSD box, it is a 500Mhz AMD K6-II

Which FreeBSD version?

> with 256MB Ram and an 8MB ATi card. I am using the following as the
> command to launch MPlayer at the moment:
> 
> mplayer dvd://4 -dvd-device /cdrom -fs -lavopts lowres=1 -vfm ffmpeg -ao
> oss -vo xv -framedrop -cache 8192
> 
> I am running the latest daily snapshot from the CVS.
> 
> When I set the sound to null the video playback is perfectly smooth, but
> with the command above it is a bit choppy. I was advised to use "-channels
> 6" to prevent load as the CPU converts 6 channels to stereo, but when I
> use this command MPlayer says:

Try adding the following line to "/boot/device.hints" if you
run 5.3-RELEASE.

hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384"

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