[MPlayer-users] Speed problem

[Salvador Castromil Martínez]

El Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 06:26:29PM -0800, Corey Hickey dijo:
> I'm sorry I can't give you any specific advice, but your system

I'm sorry too for the delay testing all this suggestions but I was ill
:-( ....

> definitely _should_ be able to play your files without any problem.
> To troubleshoot further, try these:

It is great to read this... :-D

> (a) While playing the file, monitor cpu usage with top, and try using
> -vo null and -ao null (alternately).

	I have tested some combinations of output devices (all of them was running 
more than 15 minutes). In the top list of processes (sorted by CPU usage) the 
mplayer always won the fist place for a big distance 97.6 percent, fighting for 
the second was the xterminal that I use (gnome-multi-terminal) and the XFree86 
with the more or less 1.3% and after that processes some others with almost no 
CPU usage. The result of my test were:

-vo xmga -vo null load averages 1.02 1.06 1.00 
-vo null -vo null load averages 0.10 0.15 0.16 (I thought ? then I try...)
-vo xmga -vo null load  averages 1.04 1.03 0.97 (I thought ?? then... one 
 more)
-vo null -vo oss load averages 0.13 0.06 0.17 (I
 thought must be my matrox card or the xmga
driver then one more again...)
-vo xv -vo null load average goes up to 2.20 and it stop running the file 
 by itself ??????? (I have uploaded the log in the incoming dir with the name
 coto.mplayer.log.crash.bz2).

> (b) Test a different media player (Xine, etc.) to see if the problem
> is your system or an mplayer bug/incompatability.

	I have test the xine with this results (any way it was the fist time
that I have installed xine and I thing that perhaps it has some optimizations
to do. I am still trying):
- The A/V sync seems to be OK.
- Load average vaues: 1.34 1.95 1.30 (It goes very fast up and down from
  0.40 to 3.0). But in this case the XFree86 spend the 60% of the CPU and 
  the xine almost all the rest.

> (c) Post the _entire_ output of mplayer playing some file so we can
> see for ourselves what drivers it's using.
> 
	It is uploaded in the incoming dir with the name coto.mplayer.log.bz2...

> -Corey

	Thanks

	S.

PS: I have uploaded the files compressed and uncompressed but they are the
same....

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