Video playback slow on Linux

[Jason Schwartzman]

I Really like Linux operating system because of free availability of operating system as well as different variety of applications. Especially I like Linux mint Julia a lot and I want to keep it on my living room pc. All seemed completely fine until I tried to play a 720p Divex avi. It is slideshow, really no motion at all! Other movies are a little jerky. I am also enabled the driver from the hardware section.

[mv]

I am not faced this kind of problems with my desktop pc. According to my knowledge you first mplayer to play all your videos and similar kind of applications.

Code: mplayer -vo x11 SomeVideo.avi

if it doesn't help you can make a benchmark, and select the best video output driver by entering code:-

mplayer -vo x11 -nosound -benchmark -frames 1000 SomeVideo.avi

[Ernesto4]

If paying videos through mplayer did not satisfying your requirement. Then I suggest you to go for different video outputs, by entering the code:-
mplayer -vo xv -nosound -benchmark -frames 1000 SomeVideo.avi
The output will be something alike:
BENCHMARKs: VC: 5.245s VO: 1.051s A: 0.000s Sys: 0.273s = 6.569s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 79.8375% VO: 16.0004% A: 0.0000% Sys: 4.1621% = 100.0000%
I hope this will resolve your problem regarding jerky videos.

[SalVatore]

There is one another method that I found on Google. First one change the video output value to higher one. For changing the value from lower to higher one you just need to enter following code than making changes as mentioned in steps below.
Code: sudo gconof-editor
Steps:-
Click Apps >>> Totem
In The Right hand Pane Find "buffer-size"
Double-Click It >> Change The Value Higher
There is also another option available for which there is no need to enter any code just follow the steps given below:-

Open Applications->AlacarteMenuEditor
Go to Sound&Videos>> right click 'Movie player' and choose Properties
change "totem %U" command with "vlc",, close it.