Get a mobo or video card that supports vdapu. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU It only looks like your CPU only supports sse2. So even the software decoding is slow. The raspberry pi is basically built around a vdpau chip so that's why it can eat h.264 like a champ. On Feb 8, 2013 4:31 PM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the tip on mplayer. It didn't work, either. > > I found later that I had a message from YouTube telling me that I had 48 > hours to watch the movie. But after restarting my computer, when I go back > to YouTube, it doesn't seem to remember that I paid $5. Oh well. > > If I can get the downloaded file to work, that would solve my problem. > > It's funny that I can play the downloaded 1080p HD video of Baraka, but > the .mov videos made by my Canon camera won't play - they play slowly in > mplayer and they just hang in VLC, but the audio plays normally in both. > Mplayer tells me that my system is too slow. This is all I've got: > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 15 > model : 79 > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 2411.275 > cache size : 512 KB > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca > cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp > lm 3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm svm extapic > cr8_legacy > bogomips : 4822.55 > TLB size : 1024 4K pages > clflush size : 64 > cache_alignment : 64 > address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual > power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc > > It's not a big deal for me to replace that, so I guess I'll be doing that. > I'm surprised that I have only a single core and I'm wondering why the heck > I bought that mobo just a couple of years ago! I have 4 GB of RAM. > > I'm sure it's a pretty good dual-DVI video card. > > I do stuff like this all the time (these things simultaneously): > > (1) play a DVD ISO on one monitor > (2) do VNCviewer on a second monitor > (3) serve a DVD ISO over the network to VLC on another machine > > So I thought it could handle things but I guess it breaks down with a .MOV > file that seems to use about 375 MB of disc space per minute of video. It's > amazing that the camera has no problem playing the video, but the computer > can't handle it. Am I doing something wrong? > > Mike > > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Yaron wrote: > > Just for fun, can you try mplayer? I know people swear by VLC but I've >> NEVER had luck with that thing. Mplayer always worked perfectly for me >> though. >> >> On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Mike Miller wrote: >> >> I've been using Flash Video Downloader add-on to Firefox (on Ubuntu) to >>> download YouTube videos and play them with VLC. They play much better on >>> VLC than they do with Firefox. It isn't just because of buffering because >>> even with good buffering in YouTube on Firefox I get a lot of jerking of >>> the video with higher definition. >>> >>> The nicest thing I downloaded so far was a full version of Baraka (1992) >>> in 1080p HD. It seems to be gone now, probably because of copyright >>> issues, but it looks like some 720p versions are available. >>> >>> Now that Samsara (2012) is out on DVD (it's like Baraka, made by same >>> people), I'm wondering if I can get a nice HD version on the web. I found >>> that YouTube has it in 720p (1280x720) but it cost $4.99. That's not a lot >>> of money, so I took a chance and paid for it. Well, it just doesn't play >>> well on my system at 720p in YouTube/Firefox so I used Flash Video >>> Downloader to download it to my hard drive. That seemed to work until I >>> opened it in VLC -- it shows the right length (1:42:16) and the file is >>> about 1.5 GB, and VLC runs, as if it were playing the movie, but there is >>> no video and no audio. >>> >>> Do any of you know anything about this? I don't know if it's a DRM >>> issue, but that's what I suspect. I just want to watch the movie that I >>> paid for. I don't want to rip them off and I'm not going to distribute >>> copies. >>> >> ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/8f0eb183/attachment-0001.html>