Smplayer/Mplayer failing to play on slow system

[rickz]

i've been using an old package of mplayer which includes MPUI.exe and woks great but don't have control over many option.. can't change subtitle font, size, can't adjust brigtness etc....ok so decide to get a better/newer version.. so i hear about smplayer which takes control of mplayer and works on slow system... so i downloaded: https://mulder.googlecode.com/files/MPUI.2013-09-29.exe

i used when installer the old cpu option... and it was checked by default.. testing and testing i found out that the video while playing consume too much cpu usage and was slow.. not good performance at all.... so decide to test another package
http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/pr ... 108b91c.7z

y replaced the Mplayer.exe from this package in the folder where Mplayer/smplayer were installed previously and result was great.. it's working like it should and good playback performance.. so now you know.. this most be studied to have a better usage for slow system.. i guess the difference reamins in the mlayer compilation options.. now is your work to see the difference and make Smplayer better for slow system.

my system is slow.. haven't enought time to upgrade.. maybe because i spend most time in my work where i got quadcore/dual core.. my system at home is Pemtium 3 at 800 Mhz, 768 MB of ram, 256 MB of nvidia graphic card AGP.. XP PRO SP3 up to date. just don't laught at me... i will upgrade soon.. i promise!!!!

i was testing with some 720p avi which are encoded with Xvid... i can only play this big Xvid files with Mplayer... even vcl latest version works slow/lagg too much.

avi info:
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 2.74 GiB
Duration : 1h 55mn
Overall bit rate : 3 394 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 55mn
Bit rate : 3 000 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 690 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.85:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.142
Stream size : 2.42 GiB (88%)
Writing library : XviD 64

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 1h 55mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 318 MiB (11%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms



i will test later with some 1080p but i'm almost sure even with mplayer i will not be able to play those HD.. specially if they are encoded with x264.. at least now you know and for those that have P3 and P4 slow systems that you can use Smplayer with the compiled Mplayer that i previously mentioned.. of course at 720p and encoded files with Xvid.

any replies are welcome

any input or help is welcome.. my contact info: ricardoj01_@hotmail.com

My BeSt Regards

[redxii]

You haven't tried the installer from http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/en/downloads ?

The mplayer included is built by me and the one you linked to isn't, but they use the same compiler and options but have some minor differences which shouldn't and aren't related to performance. I would appreciate if you could try the official build or you can try an mplayer build from http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/downloads.html I would appreciate hearing about how that performs compared to the ones you already tried.