Core 2 Duo not fast enough for Mplayer?

[Dr. Diesel]

This is perhaps a Mplayer or maybe PulseAudio problem, but maybe
relevent.  About 1/2 way down Mplayer tells me my Core 2 Duo is not
fast enough to play a small video!  This is a 100% fresh install of F8
yesterday (+ all updates to date).  No problems with F7.  I also tried
switching to ALSA as suggested by mplayer, but then I'm getting
"Unable to find control PCM 0"

The video is very slow and choppy.  Totem movie player has no problem
with it.  Xine plays about 5 seconds, pauses for a second then
continues.

Any thoughts?

[root at localhost ~]# mplayer /home/garage/Desktop/p1010008.mov
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          4300  @ 1.80GHz (Family: 6,
Model: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Creating config file: /root/.mplayer/config
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /home/garage/Desktop/p1010008.mov.
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 0
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [jpeg]  320x240  24bpp  15.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 64.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 8000->8000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 8000Hz 1ch u8 (1 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
[swscaler @ 0xd36070]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p
using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0xd36070]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal
luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xd36070]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal
chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xd36070]SwScaler: using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical
scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 0xd36070]SwScaler: 320x240 -> 320x240
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
A:  14.2 V:  13.6 A-V:  0.640 ct: -0.018 205/205  2%  1%  0.1% 50 0

           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

A:  25.0 V:  25.1 A-V: -0.028 ct: -0.087 377/377  2%  1%  0.1% 81 0

Exiting... (End of file)
[root at localhost ~]#