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

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Fri, 4/16/10, 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
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>  How can I troubleshoot this message?
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>  Thank you
>  lbrtchx
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> knoppix at Microknoppix:~$ sudo mplayer
> /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB
> MPlayer SVN-r29142-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> 
> Playing /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB.
> MPEG-PS file format detected.
> VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2) 
> 29.970 fps  8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
> [VO_SDL] Using driver: x11.
> 0.086 302/302 12% 90%  0.7% 265 0
 
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>    ************************************************
>            **** Your
> system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
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>    ************************************************
> 

lbrtchx,

I have encountered your exact same error, but on a QUAD CORE machine.  I overcame that problem at the time by getting the NVIDIA driver.

Now the same machine works very well with nouveau driver.  

Would you mind posting output from

$ sudo lspci
$ cat /proc/meminfo

If your machine has an NVIDIA card, it might be best that you get nvidia driver.  If it is via/openchrome, get an openchrome driver.  

Hope this helps in some way, or guides better advice along the way.

Regards,

Antonio