[MPlayer-users] "too slow" even with a modern system?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 13:36:06 CEST 2012


>> I'm getting the "Your system is too SLOW to play this!" message even with:
>>
>> -lavdopts fast:skiploopfilter=all:threads=4
>>
>> I'm trying to play a 1080p MTS file created by my Sony digital camera
>> and video is smooth but audio is out of sync.  My system is a Dell
>> XPS13 Ultrabook.  Is there anything I can do?
>>
>
> Hard to help you w/o showing us the complete command line and all output
> generated.

Sorry about that, here is the output:

$ mplayer -lavdopts fast:skiploopfilter=all:threads=4 00006.MTS
MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.5.3 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team

Playing 00006.MTS.
TS file format detected.
VIDEO H264(pid=4113) AUDIO A52(pid=4352) SUB Teletext(pid=4608)  PROGRAM N. 1
FPS seems to be: 59.940060
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12
A:   2.9 V:   2.4 A-V:  0.491 ct: -0.017  82/ 82 128%  4%  2.0% 75 0


           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

A:   5.3 V:   4.3 A-V:  1.015 ct: -0.017 198/198 123%  4%  1.7% 188 0

Exiting... (Quit)

- Grant


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