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

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:44 AM, houghi <houghi at houghi.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:20:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Full ack. I have an 8400GS with 1920x1200 and a 8600 GT with 1920x1200 and
> 1920x1080 screen and run 3 seperate 1080p movies from HD without any
> problem.
>
> houghi at penne : mplayer -v
> MPlayer dev-SVN-r33574-4.5-openSUSE Linux 11.4 (x86_64)-Packman (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
> CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel  max cpuid level: 10
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q9550  @ 2.83GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 7)
> extended cpuid-level: 8
> extended cache-info: 402686016
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNowExt: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSSE3: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
>
> houghi

I had a good 3 years of use out of my 8400 GS before the fan died and
I started getting constant Xid errors. TBH I had plenty of videos that
would be right on the limit of what the 8400 GS could play - high
bitrate 1080p H264 would stall/stutter occasionally.

The replacement card I got is a 1GB GT 520, which was a little bit
more than I paid for the 8400 GS, but is the very latest VDPAU feature
set and can do Advanced 2x/Temporal 2x deinterlacing without
stuttering or breaking a sweat.

Cheers

Tom