Mplayer Is Slooooow...

[Magic Sam]

Hi,

I'm sorry if this has been answered elseswhere, I've searched the forums before posting but found nothing

Feel free to flame me to death and/or delete this thread if it's yet another stupid question

So, I've tried MPlayer to play this video from archive.org : Buster Keaton's Sherlock, jr. (1924)

It worked fine on my good old GP2X

But on the Pandora (HF4) it's slooow, even if I overclock to 800MHz... (the sound is OK but the video is slooow)

I'd like to know where does this slowness come from ?

Is it from the WMV format ? From the player not being DSP optimized yet ? From something else ?

Thanks for your help !

Bye, Magic Sam

 

[mindlord]

Wasn't forcing mplayer to use OSS instead of ALSA also supposed to improve performance - for some weird reason?

 

[paulguy]

This sounds more like something misconfigured or something than just being slow, so switching it to use OSS probably won't change much, but it's worth doing anyway.

 

[paulguy]

Modern .mov is h.264 and aac for the most part. Pretty common stuff we know works under most circumstances, given reasonable resolution and stuff.