[MPlayer-users] Help with stuttering problem

[larrystotler at netscape.net]

I've some across a weird problem and was hoping to find some guidance.  
I recently built a Pentium3/800 machines.  It originally had an ATI 
Rage 128 AGP card.  It has a Via MVP3/Apollo 133Pro chipset using 
onboard sound.  I installed a stock version of openSuSE v10.2 and 
installed and compiled nasm, flac, lame, xvid, x264, and then mplayer.  
When I try to play a file, xvid, dvd, etc, the system stutters about 
every 2 seconds for about .1-.2 seconds.  I replaced the ATI card with 
a GeForce2 MX 200(with the nVidia driver), replaced the onboard audio 
with a Sound blaster, and nothing seems to make it smooth.  I regularly 
watch XviDs and x264s on my Pentium 500Mhz system, so it should be fast 
enough.  I don't get the "your system is too slow to play this".  I've 
tried 32bit and 16bit color.  I used the mplayer svn from last night.  
I tired using different video out options as well.  Nothing seems to 
work to smooth the playback.  I even tried -framedrop and it didn't 
help........

Any ideas?  I don't have anything else configured yet, so I can't say 
it's only an mplayer problem.  Thanx
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