[MPlayer-users] Optimization for a slow CPU

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:23:26AM +0200, 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.

For reference, my celeron 366 is plenty fast to play DVD and
mpeg4-asp. If a celeron 700 can't do it then the user has serious
configuration problems.

Rich