buggNewSense GNU/Linux - Bugs: bug #39250, Yeeloong's mplayer is slooooow

 
 

bug #39250: Yeeloong's mplayer is slooooow

Submitter:  Harry Prevor <habstinat>
Submitted:  Fri 14 Jun 2013 12:02:17 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  gNewSense 3 Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  mipsel Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open
* Mandatory Fields

Add a New Comment Rich Markup
   

Wed 12 Feb 2014 12:36:03 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I only use mplayer for watching the odd video on my Yeeloong. I don't run it under X and have added the following to my ~/.mplayer/config file:-

vo=fbdev
ontop=yes
ao=alsa
framedrop=yes
cache=8192
cache-min=4.0

This allows me to watch very small resolution files with the Yeeloong, fairly well.

David Pettifor <djp>
Fri 14 Jun 2013 12:02:17 AM UTC, original submission:  

Many relatively low-res .ogv files that I've tried to play with mplayer play so slowly and buggy that they're hardly watchable at all. This is the output from mplayer:

           **********************************************
           ** 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.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

One possible way to fix this could be to fix up and package Lemote's optimized version of mplayer for the Yeeloong.

The code is here: <http://dev.lemote.com/cgit/mplayer.git/>

I know it's pretty old and pretty crappy, and I actually wasn't able to compile it myself, but I've read online that it has worked for some people, and although I have since lost the compile logs I remember that the make error was fairly trivial in the code. It would be great to start maintaining this if it actually makes  a difference.

If there are any driver issues yet to be fixed in gNS3, I suppose that would be a way to fix this as well.

Harry Prevor <habstinat>
Group Member

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

Attach Files:
   
   
Comment:
   

No files currently attached

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

Carbon-Copy List
  • -email is unavailable- added by djp (Posted a comment)
  • -email is unavailable- added by habstinat (Submitted the item)
  •  

    No changes have been made to this item

    Back to the top

    Powered by Savane 3.13-5190.
    Corresponding source code