On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:33:39PM -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 01:50:21PM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > > Simon Morgan wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >Is anybody else experiencing choppy/flickery/slowy mplayer performance? > > yes. amd64, Radeon 9200 SE.
yes. amd64, geforce2 mx 400. > > >I've tried sysctl kern.shminfo.shmall=32768, compiling from ports, > > >disabling sound etc.. and nothing really makes any difference. > > >Watching normal sized videos is OK but still seems somewhat "not > > >right" (I would put this down to placebo effect if I hadn't thought it > > >before watching a DVD) but watching large videos and DVDs is a no-go. > > >The xv driver is extremely choppy and the x11 driver is less choppy > > >but has a weird aspect ratio bug whereby the window itself is 16:9 but > > >the image is 4:3 with transparent borders down the side. Strangely > > >only the x11 driver seems to give the "Your system is too SLOW to play > > >this!" warning. > > well, I only experience consistent, rhythmic choppiness. is the > choppiness you see consistent and rhythmic or random and sporadic? i get consistent, rhythmic choppiness too. audio stays synced to video. > > > > > > >I have an AMD64 3000 with 1GB of RAM. I don't get any of these > > >problems under Linux which is why I'm asking here. I'll punt it > > >upstream if anybody with more knowledge than me thinks it's more > > >appropriate. > > > > Which graphics card are you using? post a dmesg or (better) > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > You also don't tell us if you're running OpenBSD/i386 or OpenBSD/amd64 > > on your system. > > There may be a problem with the XVideo driver for one particular > > chipset, or you may have mis-configured something... > > but I have no choppiness problems with ogle or my own Xv using > applications, so I have a hard time believing it is a problem > with X, but I included dmesg and Xorg.0.log below anyway. same here. ogle and vlc work fine. well, vlc doesn't since it crashes in wxwidgets code right away, but vlc -I ncurses [ dvd:// | file.avi ] does.
