On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 12:16 +1000, David Timms wrote: > Chu Jeang Tan wrote: > > I've a 2.4Ghz P4 512k L2 cache with 768 mb ram > > > > I'm playing a WMV file that is relatively low resolution using > > totem/gstreamer and livna plugins. > > > > The playback is relatively slow with fair amount of lost frames, say 20%. > > > > What can I do to speed this up? I've enough memory that I'm not swapping, > > and I've disabled beagled. > What are the internal specs of the media ? mplayer from the command line > gives good info. Are you trying to stream or is the file coming from > local storage ? > > DaveT. > Very choppy in totem/gstreamer. I am not sure if the overhead in totem is in gstreamer or the decoder used by gstreamer. It plays perfectly in MPlayer. Info from mplayer. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffwmv1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg M$ WMV1/WMV7) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 20.0 kbit/5.67% (ratio: 2501->44100) Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg)) ==========================================================================