[MPlayer-users] too SLOW to play HD file

[Rilawich Ango]

Hi all,
When I use mplayer to play 720p (HD file) movie, it flickers so much
with the following message.  What to do to make the movie playing
smoothly? ango


$ mplayer p1000155.mov
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27514-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: bad file format, /home/mythtv/.lircrc:398
Failed to read LIRC config file ~/.lircrc.

Playing p1000155.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [jpeg]  1280x720  24bpp  30.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 1 ch, s16be, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->32000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
E: context.c: waitpid(): No child processes
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Internal error
Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 3)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12
A:  15.7 V:  15.2 A-V:  0.477 ct: -0.258   0/  0 50% 16%  1.9% 51 0

           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

A:  19.2 V:  19.3 A-V: -0.104 ct: -0.265   0/  0 51% 15%  1.8% 133 0

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer
A:  19.2 V:  19.3 A-V: -0.137 ct: -0.269   0/  0 51% 15%  1.8% 133 0
Exiting... (Quit)