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pharcyde

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From: Connecticut

Registered: 2009-03-13

Posts: 88

mplayer playback problems

Hello, Mplayer video output is rather jerky and not smooth. I believe its sound related because adding '-nosound' makes the playback smooth again. I've been trying to seacrh for the solution to this for hours; any suggestions? I use OSS by the way...

Heres xorg.conf

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Thu Apr 30 16:22:42 PDT 2009

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Thu Apr 30 16:21:56 PDT 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "HSD HW191D"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 80.0
    VertRefresh     49.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8800 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

and mplayer-config

[default]
ao=oss
vo=x11
zoom=true
fs=no
framedrop=yes
ffactor = 1
cache=9000

Last edited by pharcyde (2009-05-16 04:40:13)

pharcyde

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From: Connecticut

Registered: 2009-03-13

Posts: 88

Re: mplayer playback problems

-autosync 30 seems to have fixed it.

apaige

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 96

Re: mplayer playback problems

Why the hell are you using vo=x11? That's insanely slow. Use vo=xv.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: mplayer playback problems

Why the hell are you using vo=x11? That's insanely slow. Use vo=xv.

Or, if the nVidia card is new enough (some 8400 and pretty much everything newer), use VDPAU. Otherwise, nVidia chips work better with the xvmc driver than even the xv driver.

pharcyde,

From your xorg.conf file, it looks like you have an 8800GT. VDPAU works great with that card. It will solve most of your video playback problems.

pharcyde

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From: Connecticut

Registered: 2009-03-13

Posts: 88

Re: mplayer playback problems

Why the hell are you using vo=x11? That's insanely slow. Use vo=xv.

Oh - lol, I had that in there temporarily as I was troubleshooting. I'm aware.

Why the hell are you using vo=x11? That's insanely slow. Use vo=xv.

Or, if the nVidia card is new enough (some 8400 and pretty much everything newer), use VDPAU. Otherwise, nVidia chips work better with the xvmc driver than even the xv driver.

pharcyde,

From your xorg.conf file, it looks like you have an 8800GT. VDPAU works great with that card. It will solve most of your video playback problems.

Will do.

Update: Using vdpau with '-vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau' I can play 720p HD with only ~7% cpu usage!

Last edited by pharcyde (2009-05-17 11:00:28)