[MPlayer-users] Playing dvd is very slow

[David Holm]

On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 21:19, Dirk Vornheder wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi !
> 
> After downloading latest cvs of em8300 drivers and mplayer the playing
> 
> of dvd's with mplayer and dxr3-support (creative labs) is very bad.
> 
> I hear the sound (it seams ok) but the video comes a few seconds later
> 
> and sometimes i see no video.
> 
> If i see video it is very very slow.
> 
> I have no such problems with ogle 0.8.2 and xine 0.9.8 !
> 
> I get this messages:
> 
> -> mplayer -vo dxr3 -ao oss -dvd 1 -chapter 9 /dev/dvd
> 

You forgot -vc mpegpes so you are playing the dvd in software.