[nflug] Mplayer CPU Usage High

[Roelant Ossewaarde]

Very often. mplayer issues are not due to video but due to audio;  
audio needs to be synchronized to the video, and that sometimes takes  
a bite out of performance.

Try running with -ao sdl.

Check here:  http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/747/

Roelant.

On Sep 4, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Frank Kumro 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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