[MPlayer-users] Optimization for a slow CPU

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/7/06, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Celeron 700 with 192MB.  I just bought a brand new Lite-On
> DVD burner from newegg.com and luckily it is watchable with -cache and
> -framedrop.  It's pretty choppy though and if I don't use -framedrop
> the sound cuts out after a couple seconds and it's really slow.  The
> picture quality is also kind of mushy.  Is there anything I can do to
> make it play smoothly and clean up the picture quality?  Here's the
> command I'm using:
>
> mplayer -cache 8192 -framedrop -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1

In case you haven't checked, you should make sure that you have
activated DMA on your drive (check with hdparm)

A celeron 700 should be more than enough for watching DVD, and
probably most MPEG4-ASP (DivX) too.

Guillaume
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