[MPlayer-users] Your system is too SLOW to play this

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 05/02/2009 03:52:30 PM, Jonathan Isom wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>
> wrote:
> > On 05/02/2009 03:01:29 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >>
> >> --- On Sat, 5/2/09, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > From: Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>
> >> > Subject: [MPlayer-users] Your system is too SLOW to play this
> >> > To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports"
> >> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> >> > Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 2:41 PM
> >> > I know this seems like a dump question, but bear with me ...
> >> >
> >> > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz
> >> > (Family: 6, Model:
> >> > 23, Step
> >> > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> >> > Disk is a WD Scorpio Black
> >> >
> >> > Playing MPEG2; video and audio are at least HD TV quality.
> >> > Output is to
> >> > HDMI.
> >> >
> >> > "Most common" problem is broken/buggy audio
> >> > driver? I'm running alsa
> >> > 1.0.19 -- does that qualify?
> >
> >> What type of video card do you have?
> >>
> >> I had a problem like this, you can check the archives.  I was 
> using
> >> nvidia card and the default Fedora 10 was using noveaou driver.
> >> Everytime I tried to play a DVD, I got the exact same message.  I
> >> installed nvidia driver from rpmfusion and kmod/akmod package(s)
> and
> >> problem was solved for me.
> >
> > Antonio, thanks.
> >
> > The video "card" is a geforce 9300 embedded in a nVidia i730, and
> I'm
> > using the closed-source nvidia drivers
> 
> Hi
>     I would make sure you have the nvidia driver installed and
> configured
> correctly first.  What happens when you run nvidia-settings or
> glx-info?

No glx-info. Nvidia-settings reports correctly on X, the drivers and 
the output device (SONY TV). Lots of specifics about which I'm not 
competent to judge. FWIW, the Nvidia drivers are locally-compiled 
from Nvidia sources.