Re: [gentoo-user] Slow mencoder after emerge?

[Rumen Yotov <rumen_yotov@dir.bg>]

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cothrige wrote:

>I am very new to Gentoo and portage and just beginning to learn to
>find my way around.  For the most part things have been good, but
>MPlayer has proved to be a difficulty.  Not in basic functionality
>though, but just speed.
>
>What I did was start with a basic 'emerge -a mplayer' which installed
>mplayer and a codec package.  Everything seemed very solid and seemed
>to work as it should.  But when I tested mencoder with a dvd it would
>only run at something like 12 or 14 fps.  Normally with the same
>settings (mencoder dvd://1 -noodml -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts
>vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:vbitrate=1800) it goes at about 28-30.  I hated to
>think about taking three hours to make one pass on a movie encoding
>and so unmerged it and compiled myself from source.  Now it works
>fine.
>
>I am very curious about what I did wrong, not so much for mplayer as I
>have it running fine but rather for a better knowledge of portage and
>such.  My use flags in /etc/make.conf are this: "gnome kde jpeg gif
>tiff dvd dvdr emacs tcltk" in case they are responsible.
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
>Patrick
>  
>
Hi,
Maybe rebuilding "mplayer" through portage will have the same result.
Think you could have a look at 'revdep-rebuild' (man revdep-rebuild).
HTH. Rumen

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