[MPlayer-users] DVDs slow on a 2Ghz P4?

[Florin Andrei]

My "magic recipe" :-) for a fast media player is this (the first is the
most important, the last is the least important):
- enable DMA on the DVD
- use Xv for video
- use ALSA for audio
When all these conditions are met, the CPU usage is the lowest.

Your mileage may vary. ;-)

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 13:24, Henric Andersson wrote:
> I had the same experience (different hardware though) but I found that the
> slowness was due to the fact that MPlayer was unable to use alsa9 as output
> (I had forgotten to recompile the drivers) so the sound disappeared and that
> made mplayer play at 50% speed instead of a 100% ... Strange, but fixable.
> Dunno if it helps you, but it might shed some light on the issue (?)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Balatoni Denes" <pnis at coder.hu>
> >
> > I am not sure that this is the problem, but maybe the oss ac97 driver is a
> > problem. Try -autosync 10 or 30 or something else.
> >
> > > My video card is an ATI Radeon Mobility, and I'm using the Gatos
> drivers.
> > > My sound card is an Intel 82801BA/BAM AC97, and I'm using OSS drivers
> for
> > > it. Nothing else is using the sound card (I checked with fuser).
> 
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Florin Andrei

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