What options can I use in totem, xine or vlc to play on machines with limited resources?

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Published on 2009-10-25T19:08:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 4:03 UTC
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Mplayer has some options that allow me to play it on a machine with limited resources. I can use mplayer -vo x11 -zoom -framedrop to play videos when otherwise I'd run out of memory. At least I think I'm running out of memory. I am running our of some resource for sure.

-vo sets the video output driver
-zoom actually I don't know what this does, but it works for me ;-)
-framedrop allows mplayer to not render frames if it falls behind.

Are there similar command line controls (or a defaults file) for totem, vlc or xine?

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