[MPlayer-users] Problem: some videos freeze, other very similar videos do not--difference might be just in resolution (pixels)--how to convert?

[Ron Johnson]

On 10/17/2011 04:53 PM, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Background:  I have what is probably a marginal system for playing videos,
> especially when I have other applications open.  Still, many videos play
> fine, properly displaying video and playing audio (combined).  On the other
> hand, some don't play--well, what I mean is, the audio plays, but the video
> freezes, showing only the first frame.
>

The very cheap NVIDIA 8400GS card (they even come fanless!), the nvidia 
binary driver and libvdpau will make your machine a lean, mean 
video-playing machine (if, of course, it's not a laptop...) no matter 
how slow the CPU is.

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