Any mplayer optimization ideas?

[Walter Dnes]

  Is anyone aware of any magical tricks for speeding up mplayer, or do I
finally have to give in and replace my 1999 Dell 450 mhz PIII with a
faster machine?  I was checking out some internet TV stations on
http://wwitv.com and mplayer simply can not keep up with a 45 or 100
kbit feed.  I've done all the optimizations I can think of...
  - running X at 16bpp with BlackBox as the WM
  - running Gentoo linux with tweaked compile flags, namely...
    CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse"
  - sse and mmx are also in my USE flags

  Here's the start of the mplayer diagnostics when I connect to an
Argentinian site...

bash-2.05b$ mplayer -playlist http://wwitv.com/_tv/6990b.asx
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5-20050130 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE

  I don't see mmx2 anywhere in /proc/cpuinfo.

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and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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