Hi,
Just my  2 cents on this. Using the sun audio output  has in many
times resulted in a performance improvement for me. The default OSS
audio output has to be emulated by the native API, which may result in
some performance tradeoff.  So , try -ao sun . Apart from this the
mplayer docs come with various tricks you can use to optimize the
output, one  good one is to use a cheaper and poorer software scaler 
( -sws 4 ) .
I'd suggest try  a combination of -vo xv -ao sun , as your preferred
video / audio outputs. and see if it helps. -vo sdl -ao sdl have
better results sometimes. Do play with their combination.
Regards,
Kailash 
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:55:23 +0300, Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What's the trick to make mplayer and gmplayer play avi files
> smoothly under NetBSD 2.0beta?  I have tried two or three video
> boards (including Radeon 7000 and Radeon 9200) and with all of
> them, the frame rate seems to fluctuate so that smooth movement
> in the file looks .. non-smooth ;)
> 
> I tried all the video drivers available in mplayer and they were
> all the same (well, the ones that worked, that is).
> 
> I'm using an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ and less than 5% of CPU is in
> use, so I'm expecting better results..
> 
> (Also, I still can't make fxtv use direct video (which worked with
> an old matrox G200 gfx board) and I can't figure out why..  Radeon
> 9200 didn't help with this problem.)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>   -jm
>