[MPlayer-users] Performance Problem on Playing Video

Thu Dec 6 00:30:50 CET 2007

On Tuesday, 04 December 2007 at 21:52, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:30:22AM -0800, Nan Null wrote:
> > When I play DVD, it works fine.  However, when play mpeg2 or mpeg4,
> > sometimes, it's dragging its feet (slow, stop for a fraction of a
> > seconds).
> 
> stopping is not normal, slowly increasing desync is. Do you maybe have
> framedrop enabled?
> 
> > This happens at 1080p.  However, for lower resolution such as 720p, it
> > works fine.  This is a 2.6 Pentium 4, 1 Gig RAM system.  It runs on the
> > latest released version of MPlayer, and other libraries.
> > 
> > Is it normal for machines with this spec to perform like that or I have
> > missed something here.  Is there a way to improve this some how? 
> > Thanks.
> 
> I have yet to see a Pentium 4 system really suitable for proper HD
> playback, that Intel could sell so many of them is a clear sign of the
> utter incompetence of the average computer buyer,

P4 2.6GHz is definitely NOT enough to decode 1080p, period. Hell, even my
Athlon64X2 2.0GHz is not enough for many videos, although multi-threaded
decoding helps a bit, if the video is parallel-decodable (that is, encoded
with slices).

Regards,
R.

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