Multi-threaded MPlayer

Posted: 2016-04-23 | Author: | Filed under: media | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment

I want to make MPlayer utilise more than one core. I searched a bit and found a tutorial and a discussion about this. The solution is to run the mplayer executable with the -lavdopts option like this:
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Virtual machine settings 2

Posted: 2016-03-17 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

This is ridiculous. Some time ago I ‘fixed’ the setting of my VirtualBox. However, I experienced segfaults again. I am using VirtualBox version 5.0.14 r105127 on Slackware64 14.1 -multilib. The host machine is running Slackware64 -current and the program in question is Ugene version 1.21.0. I managed to make it build fine after I set the following options for the VM: Read the rest of this entry »

Virtual machine settings

Posted: 2015-08-02 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment

I keep clean installs of Slackware 32bit and 64bit in order to check how my SlackBuilds work. Currently, I use Oracle VM VirtualBox, installed on a Slackware64 14.1 -multilib system from the upstream provided binary (“All distributions”), AMD64 architecture (version 4.3.28). Read the rest of this entry »