[MPlayer-users] Re: My System Is Too Slow

[Patrick Debois]

>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 driver are you using for XFree?
The one that comes with XFree itself  (Driver=nv)
or the binary distributed one of Nvidia itself. (Driver=nvidia)

In the first one, you will find in your Xf86Config that Xvideo is enabled.
But does not work....

If you install the one from Nvidia itself, that the option is disabled in
the XF86Config file, but it works ;-)

The installation process it well described in the README . Have look at
the Nvidia website.

It also enables you to use the TV-out and Twinview option, (if your card
supports it).

Please note that users have complains about the drivers, i personally have
none.


>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.)