[MPlayer-users] Optimization for a slow CPU

[Grant]

> > >I have a Celeron 700 with 192MB.  I just bought a brand new Lite-On
> > >DVD burner from newegg.com and luckily it is watchable with -cache and
> > >-framedrop.  It's pretty choppy though and if I don't use -framedrop
> > >the sound cuts out after a couple seconds and it's really slow.  The
> > >picture quality is also kind of mushy.  Is there anything I can do to
> > >make it play smoothly and clean up the picture quality?  Here's the
> > >command I'm using:
> > >
> > >mplayer -cache 8192 -framedrop -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1
> >
> > In case you haven't checked, you should make sure that you have
> > activated DMA on your drive (check with hdparm)
> >
> > A celeron 700 should be more than enough for watching DVD, and
> > probably most MPEG4-ASP (DivX) too.
>
> For reference, my celeron 366 is plenty fast to play DVD and
> mpeg4-asp. If a celeron 700 can't do it then the user has serious
> configuration problems.

What command do you use to run mplayer?  What kind of a
misconfiguration could I have?

- Grant