> Well I would call it more "constant". The audio is OK and seems > somewhat in sync with the video but (on DVDs and other large videos) > the image tears and flickers like crazy.
I use mplayer a lot - it's my digital tv (DVB-T) and DVD viewing platform of choice. This is on -current amd64 and I don't see anything like that. There is occasional jerkiness on sweeping pans or "jaggies" on fast moving edges but they appear to me to be artifacts of the deinterlace process. That said, I have added support to radeon(4) for my ATI RS480 PCI-E (aka IXP200) so I'm not officially running -current. Before that I had to use xorg's VESA driver and mplayer was utterly horrible. Also mplayer is only built with --enable-runtime-cpudetection on i386. As you are running the i386 binary on an amd64 cpu this might be relevant. If I build mplayer with that option it seems fine - but it complains: $ mplayer MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices (Family: 8, Stepping: 0) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
