Re: W.: Your system is too SLOW to play this

Mark James wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I am using Debian unstable with Linux 2.6.18  with  AMD Athlon 64 
>> Prozessor 3000+ 1.8 GHz 504 MB
>> WinTV-HVR-1110 TV-Card and Radeon 9250 with 3D Acceleration
>> When I try viewing DVB with mplayer picture and sounf become quickly 
>> flickering and I get
>> the message Your system is too SLOW to play this!
>> What is wrong ?
>
>
> Has it always been like this, or was it once fast but now is slow?
>
> If it has always been slow then make sure you try different video
> output drivers.  I've found that the gl driver is best for my
> Nvidia card.  You can set this either using "-vo gl" on the mplayer
> command line, or setting "vo=gl" in the global mplayer config
> file (/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf).  There's another OpenGL driver
> called "gl2", but I found this was not as fast as gl for my card.
> To use the OpenGL mplayer drivers make sure you've correctly installed
> your ATI X drivers.
>
> If it's suddenly slow, check that a package update has not overwritten
> your ATI OpenGL drivers with generic ones.  This happened to me today,
> and mplayer was very slow until I reinstalled my Nvidia drivers.
>
> If the gl driver doesn't work, try others like "xv", "sdl", and "xvidix".
> Use "mplayer -vo help" to see a list of posibilities.


sorry to say it, but mplayer is fundamentally flawed when playing 
non-file streams.
-demuxer lavf -lavfdopts probesize=128 somehow makes mplayer behave better,
but in my experience it just delays the problem  in the future