Subject: Re: slow mplayer
To: None <d.zanon@infinito.it>
From: Lars Nordlund <lars.nordlund@hem.utfors.se>
List: current-users
Date: 02/15/2005 01:55:27
Sun 2005-02-13 klockan 21:59 +0100 skrev d.zanon@infinito.it:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:16:09 +0100
>   "Congo" <congo@inMail.sk> wrote:
> > hello,
> > 	i would like to ask about mplayer. Because if i run 
> >film without sound, it's runnig good. But with sound 
> >enabled it's the movie is not watchable. Can you help me 
> >?. I tried -vo sun and oss too but with sun is better but 
> >i still see that is not the best. 
> 
> The same here. I have never been able to play a movie 
> decently on both an i386 (1.3GHz AMD Duron) and on a 
> macppc (1.3GHz PowerPC G4). With sound disabled the 
> performance is a little better, but it's still bad. Why?

Which graphics card are you using? I have a radeon 9500 and it is
working fine. All Matrox cards I have ever tried also worked fine. A
friends geforce MX and was unusable in full screen mode. I think it
depends upon if some extension in the X server is not supported by the
driver.


	/Lars