[MPlayer-users] Performance (too slow to play this)

[Oliver Seitz]

Hi!

Most important, you did not say what -vo you're using or if you`re scaling  
the video.

If you e.g. use -vo x11 and zoom in software, that probably won't work  
well with HD on any machine, may it be as fast as light.

> 1. I have a 3 GHz Pentium 4, 1 GB of RAM and an Nvidia 6600GT. Does this
> provide sufficient processing power? What hardware would you suggest for
> watching HD movies comfortably?

That sounds OK, if the NVidia is not PCI. AGP should do it, PCIe is best.

> 2. mplayer 1.0~rc2. Has it improved significantly in SVN?

Thanks to some very quick responding developers, MPlayer seems to me to  
have significant updates in estimated average twice a week. So you can  
guess how much behind the version from over a year back is.

> 3. What works best (but not perfectly) is -lavdopts
> threads=2:fast=true:skiploopfilter=all:skipframe=nonref. -mc and  
> -autosync
> don’t seem to help. What can be added here?

I would check the way the decoded video reaches your hardware first, not  
the decoder side.


Good lock!

Kiste