[MPlayer-users] Your system is too SLOW to play this

[Geoffrey Leach]

I know this seems like a dump question, but bear with me ...

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
23, Step
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Disk is a WD Scorpio Black

Playing MPEG2; video and audio are at least HD TV quality. Output is to 
HDMI.

"Most common" problem is broken/buggy audio driver? I'm running alsa 
1.0.19 -- does that qualify?