[MPlayer-users] Optimization for a slow CPU

[Grant]

> That framedropping helps you so much might be a sign that your
> video out driver in MPlayer isn't accelerated. It would perhaps
> be useful if you would paste the output of MPlayer so we might
> see what driver MPlayer uses... You could also try -vo xv, for the
> accelerated Xvideo driver. A celeron 700 should do DVD fine
> with xvideo.

I specified -vo xv with the same results and xv support was compiled
in.  Here's my mplayer output:

system1 ~ # mplayer -nocache -framedrop -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6,
Model: 8, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


93 audio & 211 video codecs

Playing dvd://1.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 6 titles on this DVD.
There are 33 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  7500.0 kbps (937.5 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe)  48000 Hz  448.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
alsa-init: using device default
alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
A:   0.6 V:   0.4 A-V:  0.194 ct:  0.029  12/ 10 ??% ??% ??,?% 7 0
demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
alsa-uninit: pcm closed 0.109 ct:  0.094 265/262 33% 23% 35.0% 102 0

- Grant