MPlayer 0.90-pre1 slow fullscreen

Pablo · n00b Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 15

Hiya all,

Just changed to Gentoo, and so far I must say that I'm very impressed. However, I'm having one problem with MPlayer: it is slow and choppy when playing full screen for all kinds of movies (DivX and mpegs mainly).

I'm using "-vo sdl" and "-ao sdl" but I got the same choppiness with "-vo x11". As well, I added "-nobps -framedrop" to try to speed things up, but no luck.

I know that my machine (P3 600) should be able to play smoothly fullscreen. I switched from Debian sid and the same movies played fine in fullscreen under MPlayer 0.60, so I tried compiling that version on my new Gentoo install, but I got the same slow, choppy playback.

The only difference I can think of is that under Debian I didn't use devfs, but surely that doesn't introduce such significant overhead.

Can anyone think of things I might try to speed MPlayer up?

Thanks in advance,
Pablo

Malakin · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 6:25 am Post subject:

If your video driver has xv support use that.

Pablo · n00b Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 15

Malakin · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 8:52 pm Post subject:

"mplayer -vo help" lists all available video output driver.

Make sure you have a bunch of lower resolutions listed in your XF86Config file, they'd be there be default unless you removed them.

You could also try 16 bit color, that may be faster.

Guest

I don't if it is your problem too, but I have similar problem if I use mplayer in kde.
Switch to another WM and see if it helps

doctorstrange · Guest

it may also help if you compile libavcodec support into mplayer (you have to emerge ffmpeg first and then follow the instructions in the mplayer doc), 'cause it is faster than divx4linux

doiley · Guest

I also have an inspiron 5000 with the 8mb rage mobility card. To get Xv working with mplayer (so that the full screen dvd was smooth) I needed to use the ati.2 drivers for XFree 4.2 provided below on the site below.

http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php

I originally had this working with Redhat7.2, though since I've just installed gentoo I'm not up to getting dvds to work yet.. I think I saw an emerge script for some ati drivers though.

will let you know more when I get to that part of my setup.

doiley

rac · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 9:04 pm Post subject:

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