[MPlayer-users] Jerky playback, CPU at 20%

[Arpi]

Hi,

1. bad audio driver? try with -nosound
2. do you use 10ms kernel timer, or something better (RTC or -softsleep)
  with the 10ms jerky fast scenes aren't surprise...

but both are in TFM.

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> The playback of DivX movies is a little bit jerky - the video is skipping or 
> freezing for small fractions of second (especially in faster scenes, 
> otherwise it's hardly noticeable). It looks similar to -framedrop on a slower 
> machine.
> 
> But my machine is fast enough - the CPU is at 20-30% all the time and I don't 
> use -framedrop. The A/V sync is perfect throughout the whole movie and 
> Mplayer doesn't complain about the (lack of) speed.
> 
> I get the same behaviour also with Xine (in Linux) but the playback is 
> perfectly smooth in MS Windows. So is it a problem with the Linux kernel, 
> video driver, codec, bad file, configuration...? It seems I'm not alone with 
> this problem. I'm using divx4 codec with xv and alsa5 output (changing -vo 
> and/or -ao doesn't help).
> 
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