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

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:09:29PM -0700, CD Baric wrote:
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> 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.

No, you forgot the critical point: a _Celeron_ 1.8GHz. I'd think that
one is still NetBurst-based, IOW one of the crappiest CPU designs in the
last 5 years or so. That think almost certainly can't handle anything
more than DVD-size H.264. Even that might be borderline with the most
extreme encoding options for H.264.

> One last thought - how do I rip a mkv file into an avi file format?

The container format doesn't matter much, the video codec is the
problem.
I use this to reencode very quickly to MPEG4 for my DVD player where
size does not matter:
mencoder -ffourcc DX50 -ovc lavc -lavcopts autoaspect:vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=0:turbo:vqscale=2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=standard "$@"

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger