[MPlayer-users] high CPU load during play of h264 .ts file

[Jeff Clagg]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:24:18PM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:41:11 +0300
> Igor <goga777 at bk.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to help me and to degrease cpu-load ?
> 
> You're going to have a hard time playing 1080 h.264 video with a
> 3GHz P4.  Look through the -lavdopts options in the man page, to try
> and reduce CPU load.

(-lavdopts skiploopfilter=all is probably his best bet)

> You can also add -framedrop, if it's just occasionally too
> CPU-intensive (otherwise, you'll just get a slideshow).

-framedrop is broken with h.264 iirc. And even if it works, it's
unlikely to be helpful.