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>On Fri, 2 May 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>> I tried to watch to a Video CD file but David Moberg's mplayer says my Pc
is
>> too slow.
>> In fact, it shows a few frames and stops. The sound is bad.
>>
>> Pressing "play" again it continues playing the next few frames, and so
on.

>mplayer ..... -hardframedrop  or maybe just -framedrop.

I tried  -framedrop. It gets a little better

>Otherwise the sound and video separate from each other and then it stops.

>If you are using X, set it to 800x600 and 64K (16-bit or even 15-bit)
>colors.  If you have a non-Xvesa X, maybe 256 colors will work .  I view
>with svgalib but you would need to install the libraries first (from
>Slackware 4.0 - libvga.so.1.9.25 and libvgagl.so.1.9.25).  That uses less
>memory but maybe not less cpu speed.

I have Xvesa, 800x600, 16 colors. Video quality (each frame) is good.

>I can view on a 500MHz with AGP video card.  Do you have an AGP slot?
>A faster newer video card takes over some work from the cpu.

My video card is ISA, a Trident with 1mb.
My Pc has 4 empty PCI slots, but no AGP.
The other 2 video cards available are just 512kb.

>> I tried many different settings but it's still the same.
>>
> My PC is a Pentium II with 48mb ram and a 1mb Trident video card.
>> My monitor is an interlaced Philips 14B, 800x600.
>>
>> In Windows 95  I used to watch this same VCD file with no problems, even
in
>> medium screen mode.
>>
>> How can I manage to make it work?
>> Is there a way to get a lower quality of video and sound in order to
improve
>> the speed?
>>
>> mplayer gives a lot of information but I can't read them all.
>I don't understand either.  I asked questions here.

>You can also look online for help.  mplayer 'too slow' got a lot of hits.

>They suggest
>-nodouble
>or
>-lavdopts lowres=1 -
>or
>-vfm
>(If I understood this correctly).

I'll try these settings and make that search..

>This should skip frames (like -hardframedrop) and makes it jerky but
>usable. It saves 50% cpu.

>mplayer -ao oss -vo xll (or svga) -hardframedrop dvd://1-20

>For subtitles -slang en (English subtitles) or maybe -slang pt

I tried   mplayer -autosync 2400  -vo sdl vcd://avseq01.dat
(autosync recommended factor is 30).
This gives me no sound at all but the video goes fair - a little slow, I
suppose.

When set to zero,  sound and video interfere greatly on each other.
-vo sdl   works better than   -vo x11
I also tried  -quiet   which stops the verbosis but then I noticed no
difference.

>Sindi

>>
>> Thanks
>>
Teixeira
>>