mplayer video playback complains fast machine is slow

Bug #1933206 reported by Jeff Abrahamson
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Bug Description

I've recently started seeing this message on an unloaded 8-core i9 workstation that used to be able to play video just fine. So I suspect some bit of software has changed.

This occurs on playing video files store on local SSD.

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           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
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Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: mplayer 2:1.3.0-8build5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-74.83-generic 5.4.114
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-74-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: i3
Date: Tue Jun 22 10:55:32 2021
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-23 (2068 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: mplayer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-06-04 (382 days ago)

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