How to watch videos that have 1080p, using x264 video codec and AC3 for audio?

Question

Î'm trying to play some videos which were encoded using the x264 video codec with 1080p but using vlc it plays like a slideshow.

Do you think that the cause of this problem is because of my low-spec laptop? (intel core duo T5800 @ 2GHZ)

Solution

If you have an Nvidia card, make sure you're using VDPAU off-loading. In mplayer, this is done with the -vc argument:

mplayer -vc ffh264vdpau -fs /path/to/your/file

Without VDPAU, you'll need a lot more CPU horsepower to play the stream smoothly. For example, a E4500 @ 2.20GHz cannot keep up with heavily encoded x264 1080p streams without VDPAU. An Intel video card on a 2GHz system isn't going to work, I don't think. :(

Comments

[nilsonneto]

please add to your question your graphics card - together whether you have added any Additional Hardware Drivers (if so what?) - lspci | grep VGA

[dasen]

This is what it gives me: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)