[Ffmpeg-devel] ffmpeg on AT91 (at91rm9200)

[Benjamin Larsson]

Hi,

Saint-Genest Gwenael wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    I'm trying to use ffmpeg on a board with an AT91RM9200 processor but
> i've some problems. The CPU speed is 180MHz.
>
>    The cross-compiler works fine (with --cpu=armv4l), ffplay and my own
> application seems to work. But ... i've a big performance problem : when
> i'm tying to play mp3 file (from a ramdisk) the cpu load is 99% and the
> uncompressed datas are available very slow and can't be played
> directly :(
>
>    I've made some tests with differents versions of gcc (2.95.3 ; 3.2
> ; 3.4)
> with differents glibc (2.2 & 2.3) and the result is always the same.
>
>    I've also test with libmad and this works fine (50% of CPU and datas
> send direcly to sound card are good). I need ffmpeg because the target is
> to play WMA sound.

If you need that you might need to write a fixedpoint wma decoder. The
current one is using floats.

>
>    Is anyone have some informations if ffmpeg can work better on ARM9
> processor ? (maybe some bench informations ?)
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> G. Saint-Genest

MvH
Benjamin Larsson

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