[MPlayer-users] issue playing xvid file on xbox and mplayer

[Andy Barr]

On 4/15/05, Andy Barr <ajbarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/15/05, Andy Barr <ajbarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/15/05, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> > > On Friday, 15 April 2005 at 16:29, Andy Barr wrote:
> > > >  I'm trying to play an xvid file using mplayer using an Xbox. The
> > > > video is stuttering when it is played on my Xbox. It works find on my
> > > > AMD 2500 machine. I copied the video file over to a local directory
> > > > on the xbox and still get the stutter so I assume it is not a network
> > > > issue. All my DIVX DVD rips that work fine on my xbox.
> > > > 'Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > I'm using the commad,
> > > > mplayer -framedrop -fs -zomm -quiet -vo xv testing.avi
> > > >
> > > > This is the output when from running mplayer,
> > > >
> > > > MPlayer dev-CVS--3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> > >
> > > Something's broken here. MPlayer CVS should have a timestamp in the
> > > version string.
> > >
> > > Try with -nosound and see if it changes anything.
> > >
> > Using -nosound gets rid of the stutter.  Is there another way to
> > figure out the mplayer version?
> I just updated my mplayer.  I had version 20050402-0.0 and updated to
> 20050409-0.0.  I still get the stutter but I now also get a message
> about my system being to too SLOW to play this file.  It mentions some
> things to try to help with the speed.  I will try some of them but if
> anyone has other suggestions let me know.
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
I tried all the options suggested by the messages about my system
being slow and the sound still stutters.  If anyone has another
suggestion please let me know.

I have some files I video files that work fine and others that don't. 
Is there a program to use to figure out what exactly what type of avi
file I am trying to play?  I figure I could compare the files that
work and the ones that don't and try to understand why they don't
work.
Thanks for the help,
Andy