Hi, I think there is a problem with MPlayer 0.50pre1 and very low bitrate: The player acts like the CPU power was really really low: decoding/displaying is very slow (about 0.5 fps) and sounds is broken (plays hundreds of ms, stops playing, plays hundreds of ms, stops, etc.) This only occurs with very low bitrate, typically, pure black image (fade in/out for example). It's even worst when there is no sound (that is, bitrate -> 0). It takes some seconds of nominal bitrate to resynchronized. Skipping the very low bitrate segments (using cursor keys for example) allow to get rid of the trouble (but the skipped segment is not shown, obviously). I will upload a wm8 sample file (lowvbr.wmv) on the FTP server. The black images are located at the very first frames of the video, but the problem also occurs if the balck images are anywhere else in the video (fade in/out for example). This email will be duplicated as (lowvbr.txt) Note1: tested with gcc-3.0.1, but also occur with gcc-2.96 (I know, just a test) Note2: I'm sorry about the video content: it has been shooted before September 11th, and I have no other sample file at this time. (Filmed with a DV camcorder (Sony PC-110e) and edited, then compressed to WM8 for web delivery) linux distribution: Mandrake 8.1 (Vitamin) + glibc-devel-2.2.4-8mdk.i586.rpm (for a fixup in /usr/include/wchar.h) kernel version: Linux 2.4.8-26mdk #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001 i686 libc version: /lib/libc-2.2.4.so X version: XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.8-5mdkenterprise i686 [ELF] Module Loader present ATI: ATI driver (version 6.3.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga gcc / ld / as version: gcc version 3.0.1 GNU ld version 2.11.90.0.8 (with BFD 2.11.90.0.8) GNU assembler 2.11.90.0.8 Other info (gcc): Thread model: posix Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.0.1/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --enable-long-long --enable-cstdio=stdio --enable-clocale=generic --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java --program-suffix=-3.0.1 --enable-objc-gc --host=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu Cpu info: Pentium III/600 SpeedStep cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 596.935 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1189.47 Video card info: ATI Rage Mobility P1 8MB SDRAM XFree86 info (==) ATI(0): Chipset: "ati". (**) ATI(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (II) ATI(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) ATI(0): VESA BIOS detected (II) ATI(0): VESA VBE DDC supported (II) ATI(0): Manufacturer: SUN Model: 577 Serial#: 444678732 (II) ATI(0): Year: 2000 Week: 12 (II) ATI(0): EDID Version: 1.2 (II) ATI(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.300 V (II) ATI(0): Sync: Separate Composite SyncOnGreen (II) ATI(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 40 vert.: 30 (II) ATI(0): Gamma: 2.50 (II) ATI(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off; RGB/Color Display (II) ATI(0): redX: 0.625 redY: 0.340 greenX: 0.280 greenY: 0.605 (II) ATI(0): blueX: 0.155 blueY: 0.070 whiteX: 0.283 whiteY: 0.298 (II) ATI(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: (II) ATI(0): 720x400@70Hz (II) ATI(0): 720x400@88Hz (II) ATI(0): 640x480@60Hz (II) ATI(0): 640x480@67Hz (II) ATI(0): 640x480@72Hz (II) ATI(0): 640x480@75Hz (II) ATI(0): 800x600@56Hz (II) ATI(0): 800x600@60Hz (II) ATI(0): 800x600@72Hz (II) ATI(0): 800x600@75Hz (II) ATI(0): 832x624@75Hz (II) ATI(0): 1024x768@87Hz (interlaced) (II) ATI(0): 1024x768@60Hz (II) ATI(0): 1024x768@70Hz (II) ATI(0): 1024x768@75Hz (II) ATI(0): 1280x1024@75Hz (II) ATI(0): 1152x870@75Hz (II) ATI(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0 (II) ATI(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) ATI(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 76 vid: 36993 (II) ATI(0): #1: hsize: 1152 vsize 921 refresh: 76 vid: 36977 (II) ATI(0): #2: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 75 vid: 36737 (II) ATI(0): #3: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 67 vid: 34689 (II) ATI(0): #4: hsize: 1152 vsize 921 refresh: 66 vid: 34417 (II) ATI(0): #5: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 75 vid: 20321 (II) ATI(0): #6: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 75 vid: 20393 (II) ATI(0): #7: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 112 vid: 46209 (II) ATI(0): Ranges: V min: 48 V max: 160 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 121 kHz, PixCl (II) ATI(0): Monitor name: GDM-5410 (II) ATI(0): Serial No: 0012LB6785 (II) ATI(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) ATI(0): clock: 135.0 MHz Image Size: 364 x 291 mm (II) ATI(0): h_active: 1280 h_sync: 1312 h_sync_end 1376 h_blank_end 1664 h_b (II) ATI(0): v_active: 1024 v_sync: 1026 v_sync_end 1034 v_blanking: 1066 v_b (--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage Mobility graphics controller detected. (--) ATI(0): Chip type 4C4D "LM", version 4, foundry TSMC, class 0, revision 0x (--) ATI(0): AGP bus interface detected; block I/O base is 0x9000. (--) ATI(0): ATI Mach64 adapter detected. (--) ATI(0): Internal RAMDAC (subtype 1) detected. (==) ATI(0): RGB weight 565 (==) ATI(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) ATI(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) ATI(0): Using Mach64 accelerator CRTC. (**) ATI(0): Using CRT interface and disabling digital flat panel. (II) ATI(0): Storing hardware cursor image at 0xF57FFC00. (II) ATI(0): Using 8 MB linear aperture at 0xF5000000. (!!) ATI(0): Virtual resolutions will be limited to 8191 kB due to linear aperture size and/or placement of hardware cursor image area. (II) ATI(0): Using Block 0 MMIO aperture at 0xF4100400. (II) ATI(0): Using Block 1 MMIO aperture at 0xF4100000. (==) ATI(0): Write-combining range (0xf5000000,0x800000) (II) ATI(0): MMIO write caching enabled. (--) ATI(0): 8192 kB of SDRAM (1:1) detected (using 8191 kB). (WW) ATI(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer. (--) ATI(0): Internal programmable clock generator detected. (--) ATI(0): Reference clock 29.500 MHz. Sound card info: Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)