[MPlayer-users] a newbie question

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:03:54AM +0100, Qian Gong wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to optimize my system for mplayer(0.90rc2). But the results 
> are not satisfying during full screen playing xvid movies. Frame dropping 
> can not be avoided. Sound and video are easily out of phase. 
> 
> Hardware info: KT133A/686A chipset, VIA on board sound, Athlon 1GHz, 256MB 
> RAM, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 video card.
> 
> Driver info: kernel 2.4.20, nvidia driver 1.0-4191, via82cxxx_audio
> driver built in the kernel.
> 
> Results: the number of dropping frames keeps on increasing during full screen 
> playing. But if with option -nosound, this number is alway 0. Small
> (original) size play goes very well.

Your system should be a plenty fast. What vo driver are you using? You
need to post details here or we can't help.

Rich