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|  | Posted: Feb. 09 2007,16:23 |  |  If you run mplayer from the commandline (the best way to run it)  it will print out some tips if playback is too slow, including
 
 turning on framedropping (as mentioned)
 setting -cache 8192 (if you are playing from slow media eg dvd/cdrom)
 -autosync 30
 
 and some others I can't recall.
 
 Try playing it back smaller eg mplayer -xy 0.5 will half the resolution
 
 Slow video playback can be caused by a buggy sound driver as well.
 
 Getting graphics acceleration going is obviously the best thing, but with a processor 3x as fast as yours, dsl dma toram can get by without it (except for action movies or 3d games).
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