[MPlayer-users] issue playing xvid file on xbox and mplayer

[Andy Barr]

On 4/20/05, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:00:00 -0400
> Andy Barr <ajbarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I tried all the options suggested by the messages about my system
> > being slow and the sound still stutters.  If anyone has another
> > suggestion please let me know.
> 
> You have "-zoom" on your command-line, even though you are using -vo xv
> and shouldn't need software scaling.  Remove that first, and see if it
> helps.  That could be using up a *lot* of CPU power for no good reason.
> 
> Is your CPU load at 100% when you play this video?
> 
I tried,
mplayer -framedrop -vo xv test.avi
and
mplayer -framedrop test.avi
For both options I still get the stutter.
50% of my CPU is free when playing this file. 
I finally figured out that this is an alsa problem.  I created a
.asoundrc file and changed the buffer_size and it fixed the problem. 
I found this example .asoundrc file on the web.  I'm not sure if I
need all these options but it works.  Thanks everyone for the help.
~/.asoundrc file that fixed the issue.

pcm.dsp {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "dmixer"
   
}

ctl.!default {
	type hw           
	card 0
        }

pcm.dmixer  {
	type dmix
	ipc_key 1024
	slave {
	    pcm "hw:0,0"
	    period_time 0
         #   period_time 84000 
	 #   period_size 2048
         #   buffer_time 340000
	 #   buffer_size 16384
            rate 44100
	 #   rate 48000
            period_size 1024
        ##    buffer_size 4096
            buffer_size 8192
	}
	bindings {
	    0 0
	    1 1
	}
    }
 
    ctl.dmixer {
	type hw
	card 0
    }