On 13/12/05, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed that both vlc and mplayer are really choppy on my macppc > system. > vlc is ok with videos in a window which I can resize to essentially full > screen > without problems but both vlc and mplayer are unuseable at full screen. CPU > does not appear to ever go above roughly 30% utilization when at full screen > with either program. Audio is ok and not choppy with either program. Though > I also noticed that unless I use null output for audio with some videos then > they will play at what appears to be 2-3 times the regular speed. Most likely > some weird bug with mplayer as I have never seen such a problem with vlc.
I'll have to give VLC a go. I've tried playing a DVD with Ogle and it worked fine apart from the segfault when I didn't have libdvd installed. As for the audio weirdness, I don't experience that. Neither -ao null nor -nosound make any noticeable difference to the choppiness of the video. Have you tried playing with the sample rate? > > 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: > > Maybe you could clarify this statement... he's running amd64 and thus an > amd64 binary. There is no support for running i386 binaries on amd64, and > very little gain from even thinking of adding such support. Pedro was right. I'm running OpenBSD/i386 on an amd64 system. I might give OpenBSD/amd64 a whirl and see if it makes any difference.
