[MPlayer-users] Optimization for a slow CPU

[Ivo]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:23, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 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.

Yes. A celeron 400 is enough for most of the series you can "borrow" from 
the internet. I tested several files once and the celeron 400 had an 
onboard ATI Rage card. I suspect his problem is the audio track. Try 
selecting the stereo 2.0 pcm track from the DVD instead of the fancy 5.1 
track.

--Ivo