[MPlayer-users] mplayer slow to start displaying video

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

James Board <jpboard2 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> I'm running mplayer on a linux machine with a 64-bit OS.  The mplayer command
> is
>     mplayer -fs -vo sdl filename.mpg

sdl is not recommended.

Please recompile MPlayer after installing the necessary libraries (and headers)
for xv or gl (or vdpau if you are using a recent Nvidia GPU and the binary
drivers).

Carl Eugen