[MPlayer-users] Linux 2.6.20 mplayer rc1 overwhelmed playing 720p mkv...

[RC]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:15:50 -0700
"CD Baric" <cdbaric at gmail.com> wrote:

> mplayer almost immediately balks. The audio loses sync with the video
> and complains about buffers being overloaded.

Your CPU is quite likely too slow to play highdef h264 video.  See
-lavdopts in the man page for possible speed-ups (skiploopfilter for
one) or encode it to any other format.