terrible mplayer performance

[Chip Camden]

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 at 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