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Nathan Kay writes:

>  	Is the CPU fast enough? Is Mplayer giving messages about "your
>  cpu is too slow"? If so, have you followed the recomendations that
>  mplayer outputs?

	Not always a good metric, as the folks at mplayer used to
admit.  I used to run mplayer on a Celeron-500 where the load only
got above 1 when rebuilding world; some days it would run quietly,
other days it was bitching every 10 minutes.
	Your mileage may vary.


				Robert Huff