mplayer-1.0pre7p5

[Simon Morgan <sjmorgan_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>]

Hi,

Is anybody else experiencing choppy/flickery/slowy mplayer performance?

I've tried sysctl kern.shminfo.shmall=32768, compiling from ports,
disabling sound etc.. and nothing really makes any difference.
Watching normal sized videos is OK but still seems somewhat "not
right" (I would put this down to placebo effect if I hadn't thought it
before watching a DVD) but watching large videos and DVDs is a no-go.
The xv driver is extremely choppy and the x11 driver is less choppy
but has a weird aspect ratio bug whereby the window itself is 16:9 but
the image is 4:3 with transparent borders down the side. Strangely
only the x11 driver seems to give the "Your system is too SLOW to play
this!" warning.

I have an AMD64 3000 with 1GB of RAM. I don't get any of these
problems under Linux which is why I'm asking here. I'll punt it
upstream if anybody with more knowledge than me thinks it's more
appropriate.

Thanks.

Simon