[MPlayer-cygwin] Is it worth compiling mplayer for performanceimprovement?

[Sascha Sommer]

> > Hi Sacha
> > I have an PIII-550 and sometimes (especial on camara moves) the playback
> of
> > a movie is not smooth.
>
> Can you confirm that there is a line "autosync=100" in your mplayer/config
> file?
> If not add it there.
>
> > Just a question. If i compile mingw-mplayer for my computer, will there
be
> a
> > significant performance improvement?
>
> Are you using the latest binary package? Afair all of them were compiled
> with runtime
> cpudetection. Recompiling without it gave me only very small performance
> gains.
> It is possible that this is different for pentium3.
> The problem for all faster machines is that the runtime cpudetection seems
> to be buggy on
> windows and doesn't detect SSE (maybe also 3dnow etc.). It would be cool
if
> someone with p3 or later could fix this because enabling those may give
> bigger performance gains.

Hm, try this one, but be carefull it is not tested at all and may crash your
system.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/experimental_sse.zip

Sascha