[MPlayer-users] DVD playback on a Athlon1700+ slow?

[Johannes Feigl]

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maybe you could try to use the "cache" -funktion:

-cache 4096

enables a 4mb read cache for mplayer.

mfg johannes

>          I have a question. I got Mplayer to play DVD's, but it is
> at an incredibly slow frame rate. If I rip the vob files off with
> vobcopy it plays just fine. Why is my setup so slow? It seems
> like there is a bottleneck somewhere. It plays dvds fine in Winblows,
> but I feel guilty when I use winblows. :)
> 
> Here is my setup:
> 
> Athlon 1700+
> 256mb PC2100 DDR ram
> Generic 16x DVDrom drive [tried all the hdparm DMA settings etc]
> 
> MPlayer 0.60-2.95.3
> libdvdcss.so.1.0.0_2002-01-11 [Tried the ogle one and the other one]
> libdvdread.so.2.0.1
> 2.4.18-rc1 AND low latency patch
> 
> Any ideas?