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

[Tom Evans]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx at gmail.com> wrote:
> ~
>  I was trying to play a DVD from my core duo box, but got a message I
> really don't know how to interpret
> ~
>  How can I troubleshoot this message?
> ~
>  Thank you
>  lbrtchx

I don't mean to be blunt but:
> knoppix at Microknoppix:~$ sudo mplayer /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB
> MPlayer SVN-r29142-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> ....
>           ************************************************
>           **** 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.

^^^^^^^
Have you tried this yet?

Pretty obvious really...

Tom