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

[CD Baric]

On 6/27/07, Joey Parrish <joey.parrish at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Thank you.

I live for man pages!

8^)

Bar