<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Very often. mplayer issues are not due to video but due to audio; audio needs to be synchronized to the video, and that sometimes takes a bite out of performance.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Try running with <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px;">-ao sdl. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px;"></SPAN></FONT><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Check here: <A href="http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/747/">http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/747/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Roelant.</DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On Sep 4, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Frank Kumro wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For some reason when I use mplayer to play video files my CPU usage is</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">very high. 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