[MPlayer-users] Re: a newbie question [solved]

[Qian Gong]

Thanks for your help. The problem was solved.

I suspected the problem was due to the VIA PCI on-board audio. So I
disabled it from BIOS and inserted a cheap XWAVE 4000 PCI sound card.
ALSA 0.9 driver is used and now mplayer works perfectly. Full screen
without any frame dropping even when copying files from cdrom.

By the way, video output option should be set as -vo xv for the nvidia
TNT2 card. With x11 there are still frames dropping. It's a pity I did 
not try -vo xv with the VIA on board sound. I am not quite sure VIA PCI 
audio is the real reason. Later I will check it and feed back.

Thank you all and enjoy mplayer!

Qian
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:03:54AM +0100,  wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Any idea about what can be tried to improve? Thanks a lot.
> 
> Qian