[MPlayer-users] play back 720p video

[Alexander Roalter]

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Oliver Seitz wrote:
>> I don't think it is a hardware problem as I can play the same file in
>> the same machine with Windows installed.  So I think there should be
>> something in mplayer to play HD video.
> 
> As I said, mplayer, both the rc2 and recent svn versions do play 1080p
> very fine. If the hardware is capable of playing it, it must be some kind
> of driver problem.
> Using a plain nvidia 6200 PCIe graphics card 1080p even plays smoothly on
> the -vo x11 driver, as long as no scaling has to be done. Software scaling
> HD will turn even a state-of-tomorrows-art terahertz octalcore racing-fuel
> powered processor into a laming donkey.

Under Windows, it's likely that the app playing it under windows can use
 some sort of acceleration (decoding, scaling) provided by the graphics
card, which mplayer cannot use, so it can very well be that a file plays
smoothly in windows, but not with mplayer. On my system (AMD X2 3800+,
2GHz), also with a nvidia 6200 PCI graphics card i have absolutely no
problem playing back 720p x.264 files. With xv, CPU load is ~45% (on one
cpu). Didn't bother playing back 1080p, as my TV is not capable of
showing them.

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Cheers,
Alex
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