On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 01:15:26PM +0100, Torsten Mohr wrote: > This is not the only problem, i get some kind of buffer overflow, seems > unnecessary to me. Well, you are telling MPlayer to play sound, what can it do? -nosound would avoid all those issues (I think), and you should also use -benchmark to make MPlayer not wait pointlessly. > Is there a way to tell mplayer to take all the time it needs, do all > postprocessing and create high quality PNGs? What you get is (almost) exactly what e.g. -vo x11 would give you. MPlayer can do quite different kinds of processing, but just like for normal playback you will have to tell it to. Read the documentation.