[MPlayer-users] performance compared to VLC on older machines?

[Ulion]

2007/12/10, MB <digital.discuss at gmail.com>:
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> How can one get mplayer to perform as well VLC under OS X when run on
> older machines? I have a 400Mhz G4 and can watch most divx files without
> any problems, though I'll have to turn off some processes usually that
> use a lot of CPU. For some material might have to renice as well.
>
> But the same material played under similar circumstances doesn't do well
> in mplayer 1.0rc1. What can be done to improve things like audio sync
> and keeping up with the material being played? I get frozen frames or
> imcomplete rendering and massive audio out-of-sync.
>
> Is it a hopeless task with this hardware and I'll have to use VLC all
> the time?

You should try out 1.0rc2, or svn version.

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Ulion