Core 2 Duo not fast enough for Mplayer?

[Tom Brinkman]

On Sunday 11 November 2007 11:26:30 am Dr. Diesel wrote:
> This is perhaps a Mplayer or maybe PulseAudio problem, but maybe
> relevent.  About 1/2 way down Mplayer tells me my Core 2 Duo is
> not fast enough to play a small video!  This is a 100% fresh
> install of F8 yesterday (+ all updates to date).  No problems
> with F7.  I also tried switching to ALSA as suggested by mplayer,
> but then I'm getting "Unable to find control PCM 0"
>
> The video is very slow and choppy.  Totem movie player has no
> problem with it.  Xine plays about 5 seconds, pauses for a second
> then continues.
>
> Any thoughts?

     Yeah, wrong list.  mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html   at that URL there's 
simple instructions for checking out an building from current 
source.  You will be asked if the problem still occurs with current 
svn.

> [root at localhost ~]# mplayer /home/garage/Desktop/p1010008.mov
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          4300  @ 1.80GHz (Family: 6,
> Model: 15, Stepping: 2)

    You're running mplayer as root?  ... bad idea.  FWIW,

MPlayer dev-SVN-r25022-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7700  @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, 
Model: 15, Stepping: 10) 

     Running F8.90 (rawhide) ... an never the problem you cite. OK, 
it's a faster duo core, but your's should be no problem.   BTW that 
was yesterday's svn.  The only time I have no sound is usin mplayer 
if FF is running an I've previously run a flash movie in FF 
(2.0.0.9).  Quit FF, an then mplayer has sound again.  I've brought 
this up on mplayer-users, including the fact that it's probly a 
(proprietary) flash caused problem.... but nobody else is seein it.
-- 
    Tom Brinkman                       Corpus Christi, Texas