[MPlayer-users] GUI = Great, Command Line = Jerky

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:32:25AM -0400, Joel Turnbull wrote:
> Hi all.  I'm running the commande line mplayer and the graphical mplayer
> on XP, 1G RAM, 2.9Ghz processor, with onboard video.  

You really should say which kind of processor it is, e.g. P4 will be
much slower than anything else at the same clock speed (though it should
not matter in this case.

[...]
> Any idea what I'm missing? That is, why, with the same configuration,
> does the graphical version run great and the command line version skip
> in places?  Thanks ahead of time for your help.

Try -quiet. The windows command line has quite some problems dealing
with the amount of text the status line produces.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger