[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer slow on *bsd ?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:34:25PM +0100, Björn Sandell wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:13:56 +0100
> Björn Sandell <biorn at dce.chalmers.se> wrote:
> >
> > I've spent some time to night doing a trivial benchmark of mplayer
> > on Red Hat 9 and OpenBSD 3.4-current (from CVS a few weeks ago). 
> [zip]
> 
>  
> > Next test was ./mplayer -nosound -benchmark file.m2v
> > 
> > Linux
> > BENCHMARKs: VC:  45.247s VO:  23.942s A:   0.000s Sys:  14.491s = 83.680s
> > BENCHMARK%: VC: 54.0716% VO: 28.6117% A:  0.0000% Sys: 17.3168% = 100.0000%
> 
> > OpenBSD
> > BENCHMARKs: VC:  12.769s VO:   6.954s A:   0.000s Sys:   2.349s = 22.072s
> > BENCHMARK%: VC: 57.8518% VO: 31.5054% A:  0.0000% Sys: 10.6428% = 100.0000%
> 
> Most embarrasing, the file had somehow been truncated during transfer to
> OpenBSD.
> 
> I've remade the tests (with -quiet) and now it's more reasonable: 
> 67s on OpenBSD and 73s on RedHat. I still haven't done any OS tweaking.
> I guess it's fair to say it's fast enough on both systems. Next time I'll
> try encoding something.

How about you instead get rid of all the window manager/panel/whatever
crap, shut off any sound daemons, and test them both with -ao oss -vo
xv? Measuring how much gnome/kde slows down MPlayer is amusing, but
it's not what you're supposed to be testing here.

Rich