ge-force and mplayer

[ike]

i have:
Ge-force 4MX 420
Celeron II 633 MHz
521 SDRAM DIMM
HDD SAMSUNG 80GB

and mplayer says me that my system is to slow to play divx movies ... hmmmm....

i run mplayer in konsole:
$ mplayer -vo x11 -fullscreen -vm filename.avi
:(

are there any alternative video output drivers compatybile with my gf4 ?

[mtrr]

maybe -vo sdl and in the mplayer configfile try forcexv

better would be -vo xv


cheers

[hgfelger]

I use the -cache option. After that, and after enabling DMA-mode I was able to watch DVDs...

Regards.

[ike]

how to enable DMA mode ?

[hgfelger]

DMA is enabled by

hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda

if your file is located on your first IDE-Harddrive. But first look
if it is allready enabled with

hdparm -d /dev/hda

If your file is located on a SCSI-drive, DMA is enabled by default.
To find out, on which drive the file is located, do
mount
If it say something like /dev/hda5 you have to use /dev/hda without the trailing number.

regards

P.S.: For my DVD-drive it was /dev/hdc, as it is the master IDE on the second bus.

[r0gu3]

Another thing is that mplayer gives out those messages when stuff takes too long than it should...
but this can happen (normally) when you are moving/resizing the window, and even on the initial startup... if you keep getting the message, then it is a real problem
- r0gu3

[pinguinu]

mplayer -vo xv
works fine for me, maybe even better than
-vo sdl

anyhow, do you have mtrr enabled in your kernel? the mplayer documentation says it can give you a big performance boost.

To find out the video output options, use

-vo help

and read the mplayer docs. -vo x11 is not recommended.

best.

[ike]

Thanx,
mplayer -vo xv
works perfect .