On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx at gmail.com> wrote: > ~ > ?I was trying to play a DVD from my core duo box, but got a message I > really don't know how to interpret > ~ > ?How can I troubleshoot this message? > ~ > ?Thank you > ?lbrtchx I don't mean to be blunt but: > knoppix at Microknoppix:~$ sudo mplayer /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB > MPlayer SVN-r29142-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team > .... > ? ? ? ? ? ************************************************ > ? ? ? ? ? **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ?**** > ? ? ? ? ? ************************************************ > > Possible reasons, problems, workarounds: > - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver > ?- Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA. > ?- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start. > - Slow video output > ?- Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop! > - Slow CPU > ?- Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts, > ? ?e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all. > - Broken file > ?- Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0. > - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc) > ?- Try -cache 8192. ^^^^^^^ Have you tried this yet? Pretty obvious really... Tom
