<div>Currently I have multiple issues with the following hardware | Running Arch GNU/Linux i686</div><div><br></div><div>CPU - Intel Pentium III (Katamai) 500Mhz </div><div>RAM - 256MB </div><div><br></div><div>00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] [1106:0691] (rev 42)</div>
<div>00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] [1106:8598]</div><div>00:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] [1106:0596] (rev 12)</div>
<div>00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)</div><div>00:07.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 08)</div>
<div>00:07.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management [1106:3050] (rev 20)</div><div>00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 [1102:0002] (rev 05)</div><div>00:08.1 Input device controller [0980]: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port [1102:7002] (rev 05)</div>
<div>00:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)</div><div>00:0a.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller [1106:3249] (rev 50)</div>
<div>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF/SG AGP [1002:5246]</div><div><div><br></div><div>pacman -Q mesa xf86-video-r128</div><div>mesa 7.4.2-1</div><div>xf86-video-r128 6.8.0-5</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>First of all it's not possible to watch xvid encoded movies without problems that is, audio is out of sync of the picture</div><div><br></div><div>glxinfo | grep -i render</div><div>direct rendering: Yes</div>
<div>OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Rage 128 20051027 AGP 2x x86/MMX/SSE</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>mplayer -vo xv /mnt/storage/Videos/In\ Lies\ We\ Trust\ -\ Dr.\ Len\ Horowitz/In\ Lies\ We\ Trust\ -\ Len\ Horowitz\ 2007\ -\ official\ release_xvid.avi </div>
<div>MPlayer SVN-r29318-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team</div><div>137 audio & 296 video codecs</div><div><br></div><div>Playing /mnt/storage/Videos/In Lies We Trust - Dr. Len Horowitz/In Lies We Trust - Len Horowitz 2007 - official release_xvid.avi.</div>
<div>AVI file format detected.</div><div>[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0</div><div>[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1</div><div>VIDEO: [XVID] 640x480 16bpp 29.970 fps 492.8 kbps (60.2 kbyte/s)</div><div>Clip info:</div>
<div> Artist: Dr. Leonard Horowitz</div><div> Copyright: Copy Freely</div><div> Name: In Lies We Trust</div><div>==========================================================================</div><div>Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family</div>
<div>Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)</div><div>==========================================================================</div><div>==========================================================================</div>
<div>Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3</div><div>AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 16000->128000)</div><div>Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)</div>
<div>==========================================================================</div><div>AO: [oss] 32000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)</div><div>Starting playback...</div><div>[mpeg4 @ 0x8890b20]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected</div>
<div>VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)</div><div>VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)</div><div>Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.</div><div>VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12 </div>
<div>[mpeg4 @ 0x8890b20]frame skip 8t: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 </div><div>[mpeg4 @ 0x8890b20]frame skip 8t: 0.000 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 </div><div>A: 91.6 V: 91.1 A-V: 0.495 ct: 0.239 2730/2730 85% 6% 4.1% 120 0 </div>
<div><br></div><div> ************************************************</div><div> **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****</div><div> ************************************************</div>
<div><br></div><div>Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:</div><div>- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver</div><div> - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.</div><div> - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.</div>
<div>- Slow video output</div><div> - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!</div><div>- Slow CPU</div><div> - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,</div>
<div> e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.</div><div>- Broken file</div><div> - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.</div><div>- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)</div>
<div> - Try -cache 8192.</div><div>- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?</div><div> - Try -nocache.</div><div>Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.</div><div>If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/enmplayer -vo xv /mnt/storage/Videos/In\ Lies\ We\ Trust\ -\ Dr.\ Len\ Horowitz/In\ Lies\ We\ Trust\ -\ Len\ Horowitz\ 2007\ -\ official\ release_xvid.avi </div>
<div>MPlayer SVN-r29318-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team</div><div>137 audio & 296 video codecs</div><div><br></div><div>Playing /mnt/storage/Videos/In Lies We Trust - Dr. Len Horowitz/In Lies We Trust - Len Horowitz 2007 - official release_xvid.avi.</div>
<div>AVI file format detected.</div><div>[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0</div><div>[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1</div><div>VIDEO: [XVID] 640x480 16bpp 29.970 fps 492.8 kbps (60.2 kbyte/s)</div><div>Clip info:</div>
<div> Artist: Dr. Leonard Horowitz</div><div> Copyright: Copy Freely</div><div> Name: In Lies We Trust</div><div>==========================================================================</div><div>Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family</div>
<div>Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)</div><div>==========================================================================</div><div>==========================================================================</div>
<div>Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3</div><div>AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 16000->128000)</div><div>Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)</div>
<div>==========================================================================</div><div>AO: [oss] 32000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)</div><div>Starting playback...</div><div>[mpeg4 @ 0x8890b20]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected</div>
<div>VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)</div><div>VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)</div><div>Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.</div><div>VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12 </div>
<div>[mpeg4 @ 0x8890b20]frame skip 8t: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 </div><div>[mpeg4 @ 0x8890b20]frame skip 8t: 0.000 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 </div><div>A: 91.6 V: 91.1 A-V: 0.495 ct: 0.239 2730/2730 85% 6% 4.1% 120 0 </div>
<div><br></div><div> ************************************************</div><div> **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****</div><div> ************************************************</div>
<div><br></div><div>Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:</div><div>- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver</div><div> - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.</div><div> - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.</div>
<div>- Slow video output</div><div> - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!</div><div>- Slow CPU</div><div> - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,</div>
<div> e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.</div><div>- Broken file</div><div> - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.</div><div>- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)</div>
<div> - Try -cache 8192.</div><div>- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?</div><div> - Try -nocache.</div><div>Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.</div><div>If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Xorg.conf - <a href="http://pastebin.ca/1430775">http://pastebin.ca/1430775</a></div><div>Xorg.0.log - <a href="http://pastebin.ca/1430776">http://pastebin.ca/1430776</a></div><div><br></div><div>Not to mention that there are several more issues such as slow scrolling using Midori Web Browser, Mouse cursor flickering and incorrect refresh rate selected upon starting X session </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div>