Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:23:45 -0700 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terrible mplayer performance Message-ID: <20100614222345.GC21416@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <944932.60687.qm@web56502.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <944932.60687.qm@web56502.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Jun 14 2010 15:13, Neil Short wrote: > Ok. I'm stuck. Mplayer's performance is worse on this laptop than it is on my Toshiba running with a half-speed processor. I have attempted all the suggestions I can find re: getting the performance. > The video is slow - so it lags the audio by quite a bit. I keep getting "Your processor is too slow..." stuff. > > What to do? > > I built mplayer from ports (not package). > mplayer-1.0.r20100117_1 > > My computer is an HP Pavilion dv4 > > xorg.conf is set up to run the vesa driver. That's how X -configure set it up. I have no idea what graphics device is actually on this machine. > > dmesg shows: > Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Jun 7 10:53:01 MST 2010 > neshort@carmen:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CARMEN amd64 > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz (2127.92-MHz K8-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20652 Family = 6 Model = 25 Stepping = 2 > Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM > ,PBE> > Features2=0x98e3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT> > AMD Features=0x28000800<SYSCALL,RDTSCP,LM> > AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> > TSC: P-state invariant > real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) > avail memory = 3892748288 (3712 MB) > ACPI APIC Table: <HPQOEM SLIC-MPC> > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs > FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 SMT threads > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 > cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 > cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 5 > ... > vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x6050-0x6057 mem 0xd0000000-0xd03fffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 > agp0: <Intel Ironlake (M) SVGA controller> on vgapci0 > agp0: detected 32764k stolen memory > agp0: aperture size is 256M > ... > ====== > > "What did you do?" the man holding the flashlight asked. > > "I put down a spider," he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. "So it could get away." > I have an i3 M 350 -- the intel drivers do not yet work for this chipset. It's the Intel HM55, probably. To verify, give us the output of pciconf -vl | grep vgapci0 The chip= portion of that has the PCI ID. Mine's 00468086. For now at least, I'm stuck on vesa. But mplayer seems to run fine for me. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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