[MPlayer-users] My system is too SLOW to play this?

[RC]

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:04:58 +0800
ljiuwei <ljiuwei_2006 at 126.com> wrote:

> CPU: P4 1.8G

> when other background programs have occupied CPU about 40% usage and
> memory remain about 300MB,using mplayer to play any video will show
> "Your system is too SLOW to play this!",then the video is played a
> little slower than audio;
> 
> is there any optimization could give me best experience with mplayer?

Well, you'll probably want -framedrop, and I would suggest a large,
negative value for "nice" to give mplayer a higher priority.

> VO: [x11] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar I420  [zoom]

x11 is the slowest output method.  You'll want to use something like xv
or gl.