[MPlayer-users] My System Is Too Slow

[Sakari Aaltonen]

I'm having great difficulties with MPlayer 0.90rc2-2.95.3 in
that it keeps saying my system is too slow. I have a 1100MHz
processor (Athlon XP1400) and an nVidia GeForce2 graphics
card, which I thought would be fast enough. I also have both
XShm and Xvideo enabled (XFree86 4.2.0.) The sound is ALSA/OSS
0.9. But it's not enough for MPlayer.  

What I have found so far that although XVideo is enabled
(and Ogle, for instance, does use it) and specified on the
command line (-vo xv), MPlayer will not use it. MPlayer
seems also not to use XShm, although xine does (xine maintains
sync between video and audio; MPlayer doesn't.)  

So I've been searching for an explanation. Then I saw MTRR
mentioned in the MPLayer documentation, and tried to look
at it. Here are a few printouts:

a at b:~# cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1
reg05: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1
a at b:~# lspci -v
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 16
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

What I don't understand is the 128MB in both printouts. The card only
has 64MB of memory.

Is the above OK? Or is something funny going on?


Thank you,
Sakari Aaltonen