[MPlayer-users] Why can't I watch HD videos?

[Pepe]

I'm having problems to see HD videos.

I downloaded some time ago some sample HD videos in wmv format (720p I think, 
I already deleted them). The image with these videos is slow and mplayer say 
my system is to slow.

I got yesterday another HD video, this time an avi: DX50, 1280x720, 4400 kbps. 
This time mplayer doesn't say my sistem is slow, but the image flickers in 
some parts.

My computer is a AMD-64 3200+ (2.2 GHz) but I'm using a linux distro compiled 
for i586. My graphic card is a NVidia GeForce FX 5500 using the nv driver. 
The monitor is 1280x1024 with 16 bit color.

When I play the avi file the CPU load is about 80-90%. Of course video output 
is xv, not x11 or something.

Xine plays it a little better but image still flickers a little bit.

Isn't my computer fast enough to play HD videos? or maybe mplayer (or the 
codecs) is not optimized enough yet?

In the other hand I downloaded a couple of sample movs from the apple site, 
and this time mplayer plays them perfectly, although the resolution was a 
little lower (960x720 one of them and 1280x532 the other).

-- 
Pepe