[MPlayer-users] Slow zr output driver

[rsnel at cube.dyndns.org]

Hello Ray,

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Ray wrote:
> I'm attempting to use the zr (zoran) output driver to play some movies but I
> am getting the "Your system is too SLOW to play this!" message and sure
> enough the playback is slow and audio goes out of sync.  I realize that this
> driver requires a fair bit of cpu to do it's job but when I look at the
> output of top it looks like mplayer is only using around 50% of one cpu
> (this is a dual cpu box).  If I've got plenty of cpu cycles left then what
> could be slowing me down?  Also other output drivers such as xv don't seem
> to have any problems so I don't think it's an issue with the file I'm
> playing or the audio driver.
>
> Any suggestions?
Well, this is strange, does it happen with all your video files? How fast
are your CPUs? What happens with -framedrop, or if you use a different
audio output driver (alsa9,oss,null)? You seem to have plenty of CPU
cycles left, I suspect the audiodriver, but then you should also have
problems during normal (-vo x11 or xv) playback.

Greetings,

Rik.

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