[MPlayer-users] Suddent version dependent CPU usage problems.

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:47:48PM +0100, |TEcHNO| wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using MPlayer for some time now and I'm having problems 
> wathinc certain DivX'es, Don't know whya but some of them just fail to 
> work fast enough. The strangest thing is that one of those slow DivX'es 
> used to work ok somewhere around pre6 or pre7 while after swithing to 
> pre8 (or later) coused that it failed to work propetly, CPU usage 
> suddently jumped to 99% ect. I have no idea what could be helpful.
> 
> For now I'll guve you my box specs.
> Celeron 788mhz
> 128MB
> Ultra ATA/100 HDD
> Linux 2.4.19
> 
> If anyting else and be useful, tell me.
> Oh, and using -nocache sometimes helps.
> 
> <--sample run of such a movie-->
> 
> Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
> Current domain: mplayer
> Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
> 
> 
> MPlayer 0.90rc2-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
> 
> CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, 
> Stepping: 6)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
> 
> Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
> directory
> Reading config file /home/techno/.mplayer/config
> [cfg] read config file: /home/techno/.mplayer/gui.conf
> Reading config file /home/techno/.mplayer/gui.conf

Looks like you're using the gui. A bug in an old version of mplayer
made it add cache=4 (4k) to gui.conf, breaking playback speed
horribly. Try removing that line and all should be fixed!

Rich