[MPlayer-users] DVD Playback sound optimisation

[Matt]

I am running FreeBSD version 5.2.1.

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:42:53 +0100, José M. Fandiño <ati-aiw at fadesa.es>  
wrote:

> 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"
>