[MPlayer-users] Performance optimisation (DIVX playing)

[kyfmpl at fnord.to]

  I was wondering if there were some undocumented tricks to speed up video
(divx) playing. There are a few files that ooze along at about 1 frame every
3 seconds in certian places (namely with alot of quick movement). It may be
that my machine really _is_ too slow...the file is DIVX3, 640x480, 1512.4 kbps
If not (or even if so) is there anything I can try to speed things up?


HW:
CPU: K6/2 500
RAM: 384
Video: S3 Virge DX AGP
  or Riva TNT2 AGP (stock Xfree 4.2.0 driver)
  or Voodoo Banshee PCI 32M: /proc/mtrr correct: base=0xe6000000 (3680MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=1
Audio: Soundblaster 16 ISA (Possible bottleneck?)

SW:
Kernel: 2.4.19
Distro: Slackware 8.1
Xfree: 4.2.0
MPlayer: 0.90rc2 (./configure --enable-qtx-codecs --with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/xanimdlls --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/mplayer/rp9codecs)

mplayer.conf: cache = 8192

cmdline: nice -20 mplayer -framedrop -vo xv -ao oss hellsing-13.avi

also tried:
-nocache
-vo sdl, -vo sdl:dga, -vo x11, -vo vesa (some speedup, but it nukes my
  display on exit)
-ao sdl, -ao sdl:esd, -ao sdl:esd (with ESPEAKER set to remotehost)

Additional info (From output spew):
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices K6-2 (Family: 5, Stepping: 12)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow
VIDEO:  [DIV3]  640x480  24bpp  29.97 fps  1512.4 kbps (184.6 kbyte/s)
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 16000->192000 (128.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
Selected video codec: [ffdivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3))