[MPlayer-users] System too slow.

[Rogier Wolff]

Hi, 

Mplayer reports that my system is too slow. I Have an XP2000+ based
system, whith a matrox G550 card. That ought to be enough. 

Whenever I try to play a DVD, I see my X server soar to 50% CPU
usage. It has become a lot better since I got the DVD drive to 
use DMA. But still there are a lot of dropped frames. This is
NOT related to which player I'm using. All of them cause the Xserver
to use lots of CPU and drop frames. 

A similar machine (XP2000+, G550) plays DVDs at less than a couple
percent of CPU usage in the X server. Somehow there is something
wrong with my setup here. I copied over the XF86 Config file. 
I added my mouse and dropped the screen resolution from 1280x1024 
to 1024x768, and I'm currently using that config file. 
I compared the server logfiles: Almost no differences except for
where the BIOS has placed the memory regions. 

Has anybody seen this before? Is there something obviously wrong
with my setup?


This is what mplayer has to say about the video stuff:

Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12  [fs]
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2)


Please CC me on replies: I'm already on too many mailing lists.

Oh, and I have the mga_hal module installed for my X server. This
has has very little effect, except for annoying the hell out of my
TFT screen: it sometimes misses a scanline. 

			Roger. 


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