[MPlayer-users] Not Fast Enough to play file

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Feb 29 17:24:42 CET 2004


On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:21:07PM +0100, Paul TT wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:50:18 -0500
> "Dave Sorg" <david_sorg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to play a DivX video from my OpenBSD encrypted partition. I get 
> > the audio, but it says my system is not fast enough to play video. It is a 
> > 750 MHZ system. It creates a huge amount of .png files (images of all 
> > frames?). Is it possible to watch the movie without making these .png files? 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> 
> mhhh, don't you use '-vo png' options, right?? do you??????
> 
> if so, it's just right that you find a lot of png files.... one for every frame :-)

My guess is that he doesn't have any other working video drivers, so
mplayer eventually falls back to vo_png... :)

Also, storing videos on an encrypted partition is not a good idea. It
will reduce speed, but that's of course the least of his problems. :)

Rich




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