[MPlayer-dev-eng] Adding threaded functionality to mplayer NODAEMON

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:58:23PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > Well, as your are arguing about 300Mhz CPUs... I also have a computer 
> > with 32MB RAM...
> then you wouldn't use buffered-ahead decoding, and you wouldn't be
> playing 1024x768 video. :) 640x288 is about the upper limit for a 300
> mhz system.

No, 640x480 is easily possible with 300MHz, if, and only if it's
a Intel machine. AMDs (ie the K6 family) had not enough I/O bandwidth to
go over 320x240 (around a factor of 5 difference of I/O bw)

> > And depending on your filter chain you _might_ have a 
> > rgba picture quite early on...
> no sane filter chain will _ever_ convert the video to rgba, much less
> early on.

You dont want to apply any filters on such a machine :)

			Attila Kinali