Get a mobo or video card that supports vdapu.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU

It only looks like your CPU only supports sse2. So even the software
decoding is slow.

The raspberry pi is basically built around a vdpau chip so that's why it
can eat h.264 like a champ.
On Feb 8, 2013 4:31 PM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the tip on mplayer.  It didn't work, either.
>
> I found later that I had a message from YouTube telling me that I had 48
> hours to watch the movie.  But after restarting my computer, when I go back
> to YouTube, it doesn't seem to remember that I paid $5.  Oh well.
>
> If I can get the downloaded file to work, that would solve my problem.
>
> It's funny that I can play the downloaded 1080p HD video of Baraka, but
> the .mov videos made by my Canon camera won't play - they play slowly in
> mplayer and they just hang in VLC, but the audio plays normally in both.
> Mplayer tells me that my system is too slow.  This is all I've got:
>
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 15
> model           : 79
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
> stepping        : 2
> cpu MHz         : 2411.275
> cache size      : 512 KB
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp
> lm 3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm svm extapic
> cr8_legacy
> bogomips        : 4822.55
> TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
> clflush size    : 64
> cache_alignment : 64
> address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc
>
> It's not a big deal for me to replace that, so I guess I'll be doing that.
> I'm surprised that I have only a single core and I'm wondering why the heck
> I bought that mobo just a couple of years ago!  I have 4 GB of RAM.
>
> I'm sure it's a pretty good dual-DVI video card.
>
> I do stuff like this all the time (these things simultaneously):
>
> (1) play a DVD ISO on one monitor
> (2) do VNCviewer on a second monitor
> (3) serve a DVD ISO over the network to VLC on another machine
>
> So I thought it could handle things but I guess it breaks down with a .MOV
> file that seems to use about 375 MB of disc space per minute of video. It's
> amazing that the camera has no problem playing the video, but the computer
> can't handle it.  Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Yaron wrote:
>
>  Just for fun, can you try mplayer? I know people swear by VLC but I've
>> NEVER had luck with that thing. Mplayer always worked perfectly for me
>> though.
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Mike Miller wrote:
>>
>>  I've been using Flash Video Downloader add-on to Firefox (on Ubuntu) to
>>> download YouTube videos and play them with VLC.  They play much better on
>>> VLC than they do with Firefox.  It isn't just because of buffering because
>>> even with good buffering in YouTube on Firefox I get a lot of jerking of
>>> the video with higher definition.
>>>
>>> The nicest thing I downloaded so far was a full version of Baraka (1992)
>>> in 1080p HD.  It seems to be gone now, probably because of copyright
>>> issues, but it looks like some 720p versions are available.
>>>
>>> Now that Samsara (2012) is out on DVD (it's like Baraka, made by same
>>> people), I'm wondering if I can get a nice HD version on the web.  I found
>>> that YouTube has it in 720p (1280x720) but it cost $4.99. That's not a lot
>>> of money, so I took a chance and paid for it.  Well, it just doesn't play
>>> well on my system at 720p in YouTube/Firefox so I used Flash Video
>>> Downloader to download it to my hard drive.  That seemed to work until I
>>> opened it in VLC -- it shows the right length (1:42:16) and the file is
>>> about 1.5 GB, and VLC runs, as if it were playing the movie, but there is
>>> no video and no audio.
>>>
>>> Do any of you know anything about this?  I don't know if it's a DRM
>>> issue, but that's what I suspect.  I just want to watch the movie that I
>>> paid for. I don't want to rip them off and I'm not going to distribute
>>> copies.
>>>
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