[plug] Mplayer runs wild

[Craig Foster]

Russ Pitman <mailto:rjp at belle.apana.org.au> wrote:
> John,
> 
> Short message until I try more
> 
> I installed the nvidia drivers and the sound started working in
>  gmplayer and it behaves ok not writing to other screens no change in
> the mplayer mode ??
> Whatinhell has a video driver to do with sound ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Russ.

The nVidia drivers tell Xfree what can be offloaded to the video card
(possibly, in this case Motion decompression - part of MPEG and DVD).
I'd also change the sound card to the SB, as the Cmedia cards are
notoriously CPU intensive.

Regards,

Craig Foster
fostware at iinet.net.au (with SMIME)
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