On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 00:15, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote: > You said that playback "gets choppy when a lot of detail is in the > video", but also "playback is far from smooth". So is it isolated cases > of "choppiness", or are there constant problems? There are a few sequences that are _really_ hard to watch, others are smooth. > And it stays there also during any particularly "choppy" parts? Yes. > You could also check that this makes no difference for the A-V value > during any "choppy" parts - the sync/drop behavior could perhaps make > the effect of individual particularly slow to decode frames less > apparent on the status line by allowing faster recovery. It does not change during the choppy parts. > One simple way to check which one is being > used is to suspend MPlayer with ctrl-Z (so it can't redraw its window) > and then move another window over MPlayer's output window. If the window > contents stay intact then it's the overlay queue; if they're lost when > hidden from view then it's the blit version. OK, I will do that once I am at home! Richard
