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> > mplayer ..... -hardframedrop  or maybe just -framedrop.
>
> I tried  -framedrop. It gets a little better

-hardframedrop drops more frames and should help more.

> > 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.

That won't do more than 256 colors.  Can you get a PCI S3 Trio64 card with 
2MB RAM?   Where do you live?

> > 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..
Let me know.  I have not tried them.

> > 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.

Did you insert the sound modules first?  I often forget.

I just tried -vo sdl and it played but my keyboard stopped responding at 
all.

> When set to zero,  sound and video interfere greatly on each other.
> -vo sdl   works better than   -vo x11

What is sdl?

> I also tried  -quiet   which stops the verbosis but then I noticed no
> difference.

That won't affect the cpu much.

> > Sindi
>
> > > Thanks
> Teixeira
> > >
>
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