Multimedia :: mplayer.dsl

I just installed mplayer and opened..started dvd
the vid started in the lower right so I paused and moved the window to center so I could see it..and pressed play. the voice is not in sync with the pic..try another same..stopped and opened menu to look at preferances...fatal crash message..close reopen and try another same...try auto sync..same...do I need to configure something

do I need to add additional files?
1.8 ghz, 750 meg ram..pen install 2.4 I think
can I provide more info
any help appreciated

add...these are commercial dvd's...those with more than one movie per disk will not open at all.. those that are single movie will open but never sync voice with vid..

I read a post that suggests it will work out of the box and the info file suggest no additional files which suggests either config issue or hardware.

the crash is fatal error something 11..click ok and second message about cpu then third error box then closes... will have to get it to crash again to write down the full message..

Oh well..likely hard to understand a problem existing..but none the less

I need sleep

Ok...so I read the 10 pages of posts via search mplayer..all I got was two mentions mplayer likes mmx and ssc..ok that may not be exact but I do not know what it means anyway..but decided to pump the 68 dvd's in the crate here in and see what I could watch....so far 8 ( all 20 century fox) out of 54 work..fight club worked and grapes of wrath, hush hush sweet charlotte, bla,bla,bla...so it does work, just has limitations....

does xine work better out of the box on dsl without upgrades? I did not add stuff like xfree86 or additional lib.

danceing with my selhelf...there must have been a memo...so if you were thinking of responding you did not get it.

so I went ahead and downloaded xine and found a codec pak in the system folder while it was downloading...do I need that?...well may as well go get a pen drive as this is going to get excesssive...but positively I rebuilt the dx2 after similar excess and it still delivers as does the p166..all this power and ram has to due more..MORE MoORE..

I installed xine and it will not play any of the 8 movies that mplayer played but does play those that would not, at least those I tryed.

with the 8 xine gives an "error reading NAV packet" and closes
with the others I get a "your system seems too slow, the amoung(guess means amount)of dropped frames is too high"
the movie still plays after I click done on the message box but is choppy for lack of better discription
this is likely do to frames dropped.

question: would more ram solve this issue
the computer is an acer aspire t135 with 750 meg ram and 1.8 ghz..or can I change something in settings regarding frame rate...could not find any thing but not sure what to look for.
positively..the xine was in sync and did show in full screen but was choppy and I could not exit except via ctrl/alt/delete..and restartx. but happy with normal screen if I can solve for slow system error.

well...I give up...xine seems to attempt to play more dvd movies than mplayer..but several times reminds me my machine is too slow when it does play..mplayer did play a few but not in sync..I did watch one full movie on xine in sync and with only four reminders...thats good enough for me...will not waste money on ram with no possible outcome...this is no complaint against dsl or the fine folks who created the extensions...windows would not play anything on this machine via media player. so its all good...would be nice to have some input but guess thats not going to happen...

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