On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 23:28, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote: > Well it's kind of hard to say anything when the only information about > the problem is "far from smooth". I am more than happy to give you any and all information you need, you just need to tell me what you do and how to get it :) > Does the A-V value shown on the status > line stay at 0? It is between 0.000 and -0.001. > Does the VDPAU benchmark result change if you use "-vo > vdpau:fps=-1"? Gut feeling is no, see below for the benchmark for -vo vdpau:fps=-1 -vc ffh264vdpau -fs Any other ideas? The system might simply be too slow, but as the Ion platform is desginated for HD playback, that seems unlikely. Richard MPlayer git-8ee23f4-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Playing test.mkv. [mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0 [mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_DTS), -aid 0, -alang und [mkv] Will play video track 1. Matroska file format detected. VIDEO: [avc1] 1920x1080 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family [VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0. Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [vdpau] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 H.264 VDPAU acceleration [fs] [VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2. [VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2. Selected video codec: [ffh264vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU)) ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Starting playback... V: 208.5 0/ 0 14% 34% 0.0% 0 0 BENCHMARKs: VC: 29.217s VO: 71.744s A: 0.000s Sys: 2.843s = 103.804s BENCHMARK%: VC: 28.1460% VO: 69.1153% A: 0.0000% Sys: 2.7387% = 100.0000% Exiting... (End of file)