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

[Stefan Gürtler]

> 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.

I have to confirm what the others answered you, too. I used to use a system
with the same configuration. PII-400 with nVidia Riva TNT on a Intel BX440
based motherboard. No proplems with MPEG4 unless you have some with really
huge resolutions (greater 700 x XXX). Installing the drivers form nVidia did
the trick under X, or without thouse using vesa driver form console.
Parameters framedrop and double used to give me good results, too. Make sure
that RTC is set properly. (as root: echo 1024 >
/proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq)

>
> 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.

It should work without recoding.

>
> It would be nice if you could give me a short command line for
> an avi file and a mpeg-pes stream.

Never tryed the later one.

Yours
Stefan