[plug] Mplayer runs wild

[John Knight]

I'll give an official opinion on this. ;)

The best setup for the average person and mplayer is a generic, nvidia 
based, 32 meg card, using nvidia's official drivers ((framebuffer is 
unnecessary and stupid, avoid at all costs, really), unless tainting the 
'GPLness' of your system in which case I'd use an ATI card) with a SB Live! 
as your sound card. It has support from everything, it sounds fine and will 
do the job for all but the biggest and most serious audiophiles (plus it's 
cheap).

Onboard sound is shocking, uses up a lot of system resources and quite often 
doesn't have sequencer support. A genuine sound card is almost always a 
better option, and a Live! is the easiest option available.

Make lunch, not war.

>
>I switched to a SbLive to check. It needs considerably more amplification
>than the onboard Cmedia which I guess grabs more system memory.
>
>Its ok tho' so it can stay there.
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Cheers
>
>Russ.
>


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