[asong26]

I've wrecked my brains trying to figure this out. I have a video here on matroska that has full 720P resolution. But everything craps out. When I run this in a debug mode, I get an error complaining that there are too many packets in the buffer.

I believe this is due to the following reasons:

1. CPU is too slow (to handle everything under hypervisor)
2. Not enough VRAM (also limited by hypervisor)

Or both...

I've also tried that same file (720P Matroska movie with DD 5.1 a52 encoding), on XBOX Media Center on my modded XBOX. It also craps out. I think there are some discussions on the internet regarding creating an XBOX friendly matroska files that will slightly reduce the res, and sound.

I am still tweaking this thing to see if I can get it to work... There must be something in MPlayer that VLC doesn't have because I was able to get mplayer play the movie at a slower frame rate (19 FPS), but with no sound. On VLC, it craps out after few frames.

Unless Sony updates the hypervisor via firmware to give us access to more hardware resources, I just don't see this happening any time soon.

Hypervisor is the gatekeeper that's starving the system. I sincerely hope someone finds a way to bypass hypervisor and install straight linux on it.