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el mariachi

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 595

Mplayer is sluggish Intel 4500MHD

I installed the latest driver and enabled acceleration (which finally works) but mplayer is lagging so much...

I have a Core2 2.0Ghz
3Gb of ram
Intel 4500HMD (GM45) graphics card

it's a laptop (Dell E5400)

I enabled some power saving stuff but it was like this before those tweaks, so i think they're not related..

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Mplayer is sluggish Intel 4500MHD

On my laptop with GMA 950 I'm using some specific port with xv for enhanced playback (-vo xv:port=xx or something like that, can't check right now). It might be also helpful on 4500, but I don't really remember how I found the port to use.

gotsomeideas

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Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 12

Re: Mplayer is sluggish Intel 4500MHD

For the longest time I had mplayer looking great (no vsync/tearing issues) by adding this line to my ~/.mplayer/config file:

vo = "xv:port=104"

or you can try it at the command-line:

mplayer -vo xv:port=104

Unfortunately, after the  recent Xorg and intel driver updates, I get tearing with both the xv and x11 drivers in mplayer no matter what I try. Using the gl driver seemed to work first, but it can't handle high-def videos (they play really slowly, which was never an issue when I used xv:port=104 before). Also, I've had other videos crash my entire X session while using the gl driver mode. Maybe one of them will work for you though, its worth a shot.

When you say "lagging", what do you mean exactly?

dakor

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Registered: 2004-03-19

Posts: 107

Re: Mplayer is sluggish Intel 4500MHD

I have the same problem and found this article.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_GMA_X4500HD

Maybe you guys can help me make better sense of it.

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