[MPlayer-users] 1080p/60fps plays fine in vlc, not in mplayer

[Grant]

>> -lavdopts threads=4 yields perfect playback. In future
>> versions, will mplayer grab more than one core by default?
>
> Personally, I strongly prefer the current default
> so I don't know.
>
>> Any idea why vlc is doing better with this file than mplayer?
>
> Again, I strongly doubt vlc is doing "better" than
> MPlayer (for this particular file at least), if you
> want more threads by default, just add an appropriate
> option in your config file.
>
> Carl Eugen

It turns out vlc uses multiple cores by default which explains why it
seemed faster than default mplayer.

- Grant