latest vlc plays audio, while video is frozen. mplayer plays extremely slow.
looking at the details I saw mplayer reports fps: 30 while vlc reports 59.65
file is from Sony AVCHD and should be 60fps. mplayer has correct size 1920/1080 while vlc says 1440/1080

tried setting -fps from the command line , same delayed playback. now the kick in the gut:

scb@scb-Aspire-5250:~/Videos$ mplayer -fps 60 /home/scb/Videos/vid1.m2ts
mplayer: Symbol `ff_codec_bmp_tags' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
MPlayer SVN-r33713-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /home/scb/Videos/vid1.m2ts.
TS file format detected.
VIDEO H264(pid=4113) AUDIO A52(pid=4352) SUB Teletext(pid=4608) PROGRAM N. 1
FPS seems to be: 29.970030
Load subtitles in /home/scb/Videos/
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
================================================== ========================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
FPS forced to be 60.000 (ftime: 0.017).
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 53
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1440x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12
A: 3.6 V: 1.9 A-V: 1.761 ct: -0.057 52/ 52 401% 28% 16.6% 50 0


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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.

A: 11.5 V: 4.7 A-V: 6.769 ct: -0.233 224/224 279% 13% 9.8% 219 0
===== PAUSE =====

Exiting... (Quit)

so system is too slow (Ubuntu 11.10), but it plays perfect in Win 7 !!!
hardware: amd dual C-50, amd radeon HD 6250, 2gb ddr3

pls advise if it is possible to check the radeon driver and maybe speed up things with the driver. Ubuntu seems to be much faster than Win 7 doing anything else, I cannot believe video playback should be different.