Speedup mplayer with nVidia video cards

Adding these magic lines to your ~/.mplayer/config, can speed up your mplayer incredibly
Code:
vo=vdpau,
vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,

Make sure mplayer is compiled with VDPAU on (Default off) and you're using x11/nvidia-driver Xorg driver.
Note: this applies only and only to nVidia video cards that actually support VDPAU acceleration.

I did small test
I playd 35GB HD video in mplayer with and without this magic.

[red]With vdpau[/red] compiled and enabled mplayer was running using only [red]less than 4% CPU[/red]
[red]Without vdpau[/red] mplayer was using [red]90% CPU[/red]

That's like 22.5 times less CPU

Have fun :)

RESOURCES: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPlayer#1._Using_a_conf_file

Sidenote: my video card: GeForce GT 240

EDIT:
turns out there was already howto on it :)
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4756
 
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