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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:04:42AM +0100, Qian Gong wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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.

Something is seriously wrong with your box if -vo x11 is too slow on a
1ghz cpu. Perhaps you don't have mtrr support enabled in the kernel or
something...?


Rich