Asynchronous video playback

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 09:40 -0400, peletiah wrote:
> hmm, didn't work for me. any other advice?
> 
> mplayer plays the file synchronous, still the picture is very small
> even in fullscreen-mode, seems to be a gstreamer-issue  :neutral:
> 
> 
> -- 
> peletiah
> 
Do you have a very high CPU utilization/load while playing those media
files?  Are you sure you're using XVideo (XV for short) to play those
files?  You could check about XV by running "xvinfo" from a terminal
within X.  To force MPlayer to use XV, pass the "-vo xv" option to it.
Like this:
        mplayer -vo xv media_file.mpeg
As for GStreamer based applications, go to "System" --> "Preferences"
--> "Multimedia System Selector", go to the "Video" tab, and from the
"Output" pull-down menu, select "XWindows (X11/XShm/Xv)" and click
"Test".

Ziyad.