[MPlayer-users] Linux 2.6.20 mplayer rc1 overwhelmed playing 720p mkv...

[Joey Parrish]

On 6/27/07, CD Baric <cdbaric at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/27/07, RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:15:50 -0700
> > "CD Baric" <cdbaric at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > mplayer almost immediately balks. The audio loses sync with the video
> > > and complains about buffers being overloaded.
> >
> > Your CPU is quite likely too slow to play highdef h264 video.  See
> > -lavdopts in the man page for possible speed-ups (skiploopfilter for
> > one) or encode it to any other format.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Just for fun, I tried using the null video out argument:
>
> mplayer -vo null 'Coyote Ugly.mkv'
>
> And I was still faced with the same error messages and failed play.
> Could the problem really be about the audio?
>
> I find it hard to believe that a 1.8 GHz CPU with 1 Gig of memory is
> too slow to play these files - there must be something wrong with the
> mkv decoding or container system.
>
> What do other users report playing mkv files?
>
> One last thought - how do I rip a mkv file into an avi file format?

Quick and simple:

mencoder -ovc lavc -oac copy -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 input.mkv -o output.avi

For more options, read the man page.

--Joey