[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: colorspaces vs graphics cards

[Sascha Sommer]

> Look, a perfect solution without rewritable media is not going to
> happen.  You're going to have to comprimise and come up with a decent
> heuristic.  For example, most of the time, accelerated RGB overlays are
> fast enough.  And MPlayer's YUV to RGB conversions are fast enough.
> Just make sure that you enable runtime cpu detection, disable all yuv
> spaces, and that you don't distribute ridiculously high-bitrate or
> extremely high-resolution videos.  I'm sure you won't have optimal
> performance everywhere, but you'll have good enough performance to get
> your job done and nobody will notice the difference.
>

I think it is ok as it is now. The case where RGB is faster that YUV is very
rare and
YV12 vs. YUY2 should only give minor differences in speed for most cards.
To get the best performance you will always have to install mplayer yourself
and play with
the options.


Sascha