[MPlayer-users] playing movies on slow machines ...

[Juan Martin]

El lun, 29-12-2003 a las 17:41, Enrico Weigelt escribió:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> i'm using a quite slow machine (PII/400 w/ RivaTNT) for movie
> playback. For some VCDs it works quite well, but for DivX it
> is defitively too slow. 
> Is there any possibility to prepare the movies, so that they require
> less CPU power (i.e. convert to an faster encoding) ? Its okay if 
> the machine has some hours to do w/ the conversion, but then the
> playback should be okay.
> 
[...]

Rescaling image to width 320 or similar, video bitrate around 650 and
abr MP3 audio at 96kbps I play the DivX movies in my __Pentium MMX @133
MHz__ with 16MB of RAM ^_^.

Also:
1) xv (hardware accelerated) video output.
2) -hardframedrop

Even rescaling to fullscreen the playback is fine.

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