Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:04:49 +0200 From: Marcin Simonides <marcin@studio4plus.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: mplayer bktr playback performance Message-ID: <CE3EE64F-C694-438A-886E-A1999974ADB4@studio4plus.com>
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I'm trying to use mplayer for TV playback using a bktr driver but it displays about 1 frame per second. I remember using it with the same card about two years ago and there were no problems. CPU usage is low, even though it's not a fast computer. The video output uses Xv. I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE with port versions from the time of release. I'd like to know whether any of you are using mplayer successfully for TV playback? I'd rather use mplayer because 1) some other programs had their own problems, 2) it's going to be a kiosk-like computer with mplayer being controlled through a fifo. As far as I learned from googling, there are/were some problems and I've seen someone claim that mplayer 0.90 used to work fine. Unfortunately, this version (and 0.92 - the other pre-0.99 version in ports) doesn't compile because of ffmpeg incompatibilities (i.e. the source supplied with that version of mplayer doesn't build on 6.2- release and ffmpeg from ports is probably too new for mplayer 0.9[02]). I'm afraid I won't be able to provide much more information for now because I'm away from the computer in question. Please CC: me when replying, I'm not subscribed to the list. -- Marcin Simonides
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