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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 09 January 2006 at 06:25, RC wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:34:43 +0100
> Markus Schulz <msc at tastatur-junkie.de> wrote:
> 
> > Error while decoding frame!
> > Error while decoding frame!41 ct:  0.013   4/  4 ??% ??% ??,?% 3 0 78%
> > Error while decoding frame!66 ct:  0.021   6/  6 ??% ??% ??,?% 4 0 77%
> > Error while decoding frame!65 ct:  0.063  16/ 16 108% 212% 15.1% 5 0
> > 73%
> 
> Use "-noframedrop".  That's also why it works with -nosound...  
> 
> There are a LOT of other ways to speed-up mplayer.  -nocache helps quite
> a bit.  -nortc surprisingly gives a big speed-up on my system.  And if
> you've got an NVidia videocard, I've found the fastest display
> method to be "-vo gl:yuv=1 -dr -vf format=bgr24".  
> 
> And finally, look through the -lavdopts and basically disable
> them until it's fast enough :-)
> 
> Even with all of this, my CPU (AMD XP) clocked at almost 2GHz, can still
> just barely playback h.264 in 1080p @24fps.  I really hope ffh264 gets a
> lot of optimization.

The main problems with mp4 are AV-interleaving, which requires lots of
-cache, and AAC audio, whose decoder is difficult to optimize. Just
remuxing to different container (like Matroska) and reencoding the audio
to mp3 or ogg makes significant difference.

R.

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