[MPlayer-users] Optimization for a slow CPU

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Sep 7, 2006, at 15.31, Grant wrote:

>> 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.

I doubt that's the cause. I played a lot of movies with Dolby 5.1 on  
a Pentium 500, in Windows, and in Linux, with and without  
deinterlacing, with WinDVD, mplayer, Xine, and Ogle. I even played  
one with 4.0 output. I don't think the sound stream is the issue.

> I can't figure out how to access the DVD menu from within gmplayer (or
> mplayer for that matter)

DVD Menu support is very preliminary (relative to the rest of  
MPlayer) and only available in the SVN releases of MPlayer thus far.  
You're not going to get to that menu, sorry.

> but I'm only able to select between a 5.1 French and 5.1 English  
> audio track via the right-click menu in "V is for Vendetta".  Is  
> there an option in mplayer to force the 2 channel track?

Nope. Sorry, but "V for Vendetta" only has 5.1 tracks for the movie.

Have you tried playing the video back with another DVD app, such as  
Xine or Ogle? (FYI: Both have menu support)


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