MPlayer being Choppy

[Noah Dain]

On 11/14/05, Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> Wade,
>
> This all looks fine, except for that one DMA part.  It's unrelated to your
> problems though, so don't try to fix that now.  Do one thing at a time :)
>
> On Monday 14 November 2005 18:25, Wade Smart wrote:
> > [ hint ] DMA is disabled for your DVD interface.
> >          This will probably result in a serious performance hit when
> >          playing DVDs. You can issue the command
>
> I haven't actually used mozilla-mplayer much myself (I'm a KDE type), but if
> it has settings to use SDL for audio output and frameskipping (aka
> framedropping), you could try those.  Make sure nothing else is trying to use
> the video hardware or the sound system at the same time -- running pkill esd
> and pkill arts from a terminal before playing might help.  It's worth
> checking too, if there are known driver problems with your sound card or
> video card.
>
> Again, do one at a time, and at least you'll eliminate possibilities or get
> closer to the source of the problem.
>
> Good luck :)
>
> --
> Lee Braiden
> http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
>

i had the same thing happening.  It was a combo of things.

use 'xv' for video output
use 'oss' for audio output (emulated via alsa)
disable double-buffering (if enabled)

I would try changing one setting at a time, particularly as our
hardware is quite different.

--
Noah Dain