[MPlayer-users] Too many (4096 in 8287298 bytes) video packets in the buffer

[lanzz at lanzz.org]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Steven M. Schultz wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> > From: "Mario J. =?iso-8859-1?q?Barch=E9in?= Molina" <mbarchein at yahoo.es>
> > 
> > Try with "-ni" option. It worked for me in an divx file with the same 
> > problem
> 
> 	Thank you for the suggestion.   It was very helpful.  Using 
> 	'-ni -framedrop' plays the movie nicely.   It seems that a 700MHz
> 	Pentium-III is on the edge of  being too slow.  Time to buy a new
> 	notebook :-)

strange thing. i'm playing dvd-sized divxes at home, with 500mhz p3 without
any framedrop at all... so 700 should be more than enough. i even played some
such files at work with a 400mhz celeron (even without sse!) and it was almost
fast enough.