[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFD] Something...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 01:53:17PM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Sam, 2003-04-12 um 00.42 schrieb D Richard Felker III:
> 
> > While the other progs are copying the picture around multiple times,
> > using bloated slow api's, etc., MPlayer has a decent
> > (but still not perfect) system whereby codecs, filters, and output
> > drivers negotiate capabilities, process video in its native colorspace
> > when possible, direct render or slice render between filters and to
> > the output driver, etc.
> 
> As long as xine *is* faster than mplayer on a few systems there's no reason
> to be to jealous. And it still is on ppc and was at least sparc and alpha.
> The only reason mplayer gets decent performance on ix86 is the heavy use of
> ix86 specific assembly code everywhere. Last but not least Michaels' lavc code 
> works miracles as well!

If you're using a junky vo like xv or x11, yes, I'll believe that for
sure. On the other hand, comparing xine to mplayer -vo [x]mga or even
-vo fbdev is probably a joke.

Rich