[MPlayer-users] VDPAU stuttering when playing x264 encoded media

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Tom Evans <tevans.uk <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> I derived the configure options from how mplayer is configured in
> FreeBSD ports; I believe SSE3 is disabled due to poor support in gcc
> 4.2.

I may be wrong but this is not about gcc support, but you are disabling
optimized asm-routines. runtime-cpu-detection might be even worse.

> In what way do those options not do what I expect? Do they not enable
> dca, freetype, vdpau and v4l, and allow mencoder to encode to x264?

They will be enabled if the necessary headers (libraries) are installed on your
system, you override the detection which causes confusion (whenever x264 is
updated) and/or doesn't work (for example for live555).

Just use ./configure (and add --enable-menu if you really need it but be warned
that is does not work with vdpau).
You may of course have to add the include paths and defines from your original
configuration, I don't know.

> Can you clarify what speed has to do with this as well? With vo=xv,
> the CPU has to do all decoding, and manages it just fine. I would have
> thought even more capacity would be available when I offload all the
> decoding.

Could you clarify the refresh rate of your screen?
(Or do you mean I wasn't clear when I wrote "Unrelated to your problem"? I just
wanted to save you from future problems.)

Carl Eugen