Greetings, I?m trying to play HD files using mplayer on Ubuntu 8.10 (x86-32), and it was so far rather unsuccessful. It would just say, ?Your system is too slow to play this? (also lots of ?Too many video packets in the buffer?) and video would lag behind audio. I?ve done a fair amount of googling, some advice helped more and some less, but none fully. So could someone please get it straight and tell me whether it?s a problem with hardware, or software, or PEBKAC maybe? 1. I have a 3 GHz Pentium 4, 1 GB of RAM and an Nvidia 6600GT. Does this provide sufficient processing power? What hardware would you suggest for watching HD movies comfortably? 2. mplayer 1.0~rc2. Has it improved significantly in SVN? 3. What works best (but not perfectly) is -lavdopts threads=2:fast=true:skiploopfilter=all:skipframe=nonref. -mc and -autosync don?t seem to help. What can be added here? What?s strange is that A-V desync is only slight, less than 1%, and I can get rid of it by seeking in any direction, which seemingly causes both audio and video to restart from a given position, and then desync begins again to accumulate. That gives the impression that the system _almost_ copes with the load, however, if I enable -framedrop, playback becomes really jerky while it would seem it would have to drop only a single frame per several seconds. So, am I missing something incredibly simple? Are there any magic options that would make HD playback smooth and with A-V sync, or should I replace some of the more outdated hardware? By the way, speaking of hardware, would you recommend new Nvidia cards with VDPAU support, does it help and would it outweigh having to use a proprietary driver? Thanks in advance. -- WBR Roman.
