On Monday 30 January 2006 20:31, William Smith wrote: > > MPlayer outputs a 'Your system is too SLOW to play this' message, but I > > would have thought it was more than capable of playing this (AMD Sempron > > 2300, 512Mb RAM, Abit VA-20 Socket A VIA KM400A chipset). Neither CPU or > > RAM utilisation during streaming go above 25%! > > I have seen that before with Mplayer. It was on a system at work that has 2 > Xeons in it. I don't think this is a problem with your DVB, but rather > Mplayer. I had a friend who knows a bit more about Mplayer come over and > check it and he changed some of the parameters for Mplayer and it worked > fine. I think he changed which display driver Mplayer used. Have you tried > Xine or VLC? Xine is pretty good for playing DVB. > > William Sorry, I will just add this little bit still. I also just remembered that he forced it to use another codec. Some of codecs don't work well with some file/stream formats. I needed a codec package from Mplayerhq.hu William
