Slow video playback

[David Timms]

Chu Jeang Tan wrote:
> I've a 2.4Ghz P4 512k L2 cache with 768 mb ram
> 
> I'm playing a WMV file that is relatively low resolution using
> totem/gstreamer and livna plugins.
> 
> The playback is relatively slow with fair amount of lost frames, say 20%.
> 
> What can I do to speed this up? I've enough memory that I'm not swapping,
> and I've disabled beagled.
What are the internal specs of the media ? mplayer from the command line 
gives good info. Are you trying to stream or is the file coming from 
local storage ?

DaveT.