[MPlayer-users] mplayer win32 issue

[Sascha Sommer]

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello all,
>
> I've been using the win32 experimental build and i find it to be much
> slower than what i would expect.
> At first i thought it was a VO problem, but using -vo null and -ao
> null it seemed it wasnt that.
> Mplayer will play that test vid using ~54% of the cpu while ffdshow
> and graphedit would use around ~30%. After using the -benchmark option
> i noticed something really strange:
> BENCHMARKs: VC:   3.066s VO:   0.001s A:   0.068s Sys:  21.879s =
25.014s
> BENCHMARK%: VC: 12.2571% VO:  0.0040% A:  0.2718% Sys: 87.4670% =
100.0000%
>
> Yes... System is eating up all ressources...
> I thought it might be a prob with the terminal so i ran with
> -really-quiet -ao null -vo null, still the same result.
> I really dont know what is going wrong, i thought it might be the
> timer that eats all cpu(usleep timer) so if anyone can tell me the
> problem and maybe a solution it would be great.
>

This is really strange. As there are several win32 builds around which file
did you download
exactly?
Btw. you should use -nosound instead of -ao null for benchmark because -ao
null emulates the soundcard.
Therefore some cpu time will be spent for waiting to keep audio and video in
sync.

Sascha