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

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:58:48PM +0900, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> well, my celeron 366 laptop has trouble with it... of course i'm
> assuming no framedrop...running with -framedrop is disgusting and
> pointless imo.

That does not contradict Attila, Celerons have less cache and lower
bandwidth than Pentium 2 processors.

Diego