[MPlayer-users] What -vo option should I use?

[Nico Sabbi]

Louise Hoffman wrote:
> Dear readers
> 
> All videos I play eat up my 2GHz AMD64 cpu, so I am guessing my -vo
> option wrong?
> 
> I am using Linux, and mplayer like this
> 
> mplayer -vo sdl
> 
> and I have these SDL packages
> SDL-devel-1.2.10-8.fc6
> SDL-1.2.10-8.fc6
> SDL_gfx-2.0.15-1.fc6.rf
> 
> and I use the Nvidia drivers.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what to do, so my CPU isn't maxed out during playback?
> 
> Lots of love,
> Louise =)

love your pc and remove vo sdl :)
xvidix is generaly the best choice; with nvidia drivers you can 
probably have gl and xv have as good alternatives

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