[nflug] Mplayer CPU Usage High

[Frank Kumro]

Well I found the problem...the ati drivers were not correctly
installed. I fixed that problem and now using the -vo xv helps to keep
the CPU usage down and now I can go full screen :) Thanks!

On 9/5/06, Frank Kumro <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:
> The video option failed with the error
>
> Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
> See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
>
> and once running the command
> $ xvinfo
> X-Video Extension version 2.2
> screen #0
>  no adaptors present
>
> Damn ati
>
> and the sound option -ao sdl just kills all sound...
>
> On 9/4/06, Roelant Ossewaarde <rao3 at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
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