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

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 05/02/2009 03:01:29 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> --- On Sat, 5/2/09, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>
> > Subject: [MPlayer-users] Your system is too SLOW to play this
> > To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports"
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> > Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 2:41 PM
> > 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?
 
> What type of video card do you have?
> 
> I had a problem like this, you can check the archives.  I was using
> nvidia card and the default Fedora 10 was using noveaou driver. 
> Everytime I tried to play a DVD, I got the exact same message.  I
> installed nvidia driver from rpmfusion and kmod/akmod package(s) and
> problem was solved for me.  

Antonio, thanks.

The video "card" is a geforce 9300 embedded in a nVidia i730, and I'm 
using the closed-source nvidia drivers