[nflug] Mplayer CPU Usage High

[David J. Andruczyk]

Try "mplayer -vo xv"  filename.

Odds are it's using the xshm driver instead of the Xvideo driver.

xvinfo will tell you if you have Xvideo support in your X11 config.


--- Frank Kumro <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:

> For some reason when I use mplayer to play video files my CPU usage
> is
> very high. I just played a DVD and it used 60% CPU and when I watch a
> divx excoded video and make the video larger mplayer uses 100% CPU.
> My
> machine specs are below and I have the newest ati driver installed
> (from ati). Anyone know of a fix for this?
> 
> AMD XP 3200+
> 250gb SATA Drive
> ATI x1900Pro 256mb
> 1gb ddr400 ram
> 
> -- 
> Frank
> Shenanigans!!
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-- David J. Andruczyk

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