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

[Qian Gong]

Hi, I tested the VIA on board sound. With -vo xv option the full screen
playing works perfectly (0 frame dropping), even with copying files 
from CDROM. It seems the only tricks are using nvidia driver and -vo xv
option.

BTW, -vo x11 still does not work smoothly. I have mtrr enabled. Don't
what the difference between x11 and xv, and why there are so much
difference in performance, perhaps related to the nvidia driver.

Cheers,

Qian
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:04:42AM +0100,  wrote:
> 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