[MPlayer-users] howto play apples quicktime movie trailers (720p)

[Markus Schulz]

Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2006 22:41 schrieb Phil Oleynik:
> Markus Schulz wrote:
> >wow, with -nosound there are no errors anymore and video runs
> >perferctly.
> >With -ao oss or sdl there are errors too (like alsa).
> >
> >I cant understand why "error while decoding frame" can be have to do
> >with audio-out?
> >Looks like a problem with this:
> >****
> >Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4
> > Audio) decoder)
> >****
>
> The reason is most possibly that your CPU is not fast enough.
> I have the same errors with h264-compressed files on Celeron-850.
> The same version of mplayer built in the same environment
> (gcc, glibc, etc) on P-4 2.2 works perfectly.
> Possibly, frame decoding is halted in abnormal way, when time
> to display next frame comes. However, I am absolutely not sure.

ok, this seems to be the problem. the cpu usage goes from 50% up to 
nearly 100% in some scenes. (A64-3500+ nvidia xv-overlay) And each time 
cpu usage goes to 100% the messages drops. Perhaps better disable 
"error decoding frame" messages on frame drops, it's confusing.

Other question, what i need to decode 720p/1080p h264 on linux if 720p 
h264 burns a 3500? Or should this be fine and something is wrong with 
my system?

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Markus Schulz