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corrupt

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Registered: 2007-06-25

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[SOLVED]bad video performance in mplayer

I have dual-core 1.4 ghz core duo on my laptop and 32 bit system.
When I try to play h264 encoded files mplayer says:"Your system is too SLOW to play this!".
I noticed that only one core is loaded during playback.
That's why I want to play video on both cores.
This option

-lavdopts threads=2

does not help(it's supposed to make more threads for h264 and mpeg1,2).
CPU load is still mostly on one core.
And when cpu load is high framedropping starts.
Is there someone who tested mplayer on multicore system ?

Last edited by corrupt (2009-04-18 10:26:08)

Nepherte

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Registered: 2008-09-09

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Re: [SOLVED]bad video performance in mplayer

Did you install the multithreaded ffmpeg (ffmpeg-mt) for your mplayer build? I think that option only works for ffmpeg-mt

corrupt

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Re: [SOLVED]bad video performance in mplayer

Thanks, Nepherte. I will try that.

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED]bad video performance in mplayer

corrupt,

Is your GPU nVidia by any chance?

corrupt

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Re: [SOLVED]bad video performance in mplayer

No, skottish. I have integrated Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c).

apaige

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Re: [SOLVED]bad video performance in mplayer

Read the latest news item (2009-02-20) on MPlayerHQ. ffmpeg-mt works pretty well on my lowly Intel Atom.

corrupt

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Re: [SOLVED]bad video performance in mplayer

Yes, performance is much better with ffmpeg-mt.
Thanks everyone!