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

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:39:14PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > 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.

Well, celerons are a "make it cheap" chip. And the easiest way to make
a chip cheap is to make it slow :)
I had no probs on a PII 300 and hardly came to a state where framedrops
would be needed. (ok, it was an all scsi system with a G550 underneath,
a G200 would eat up another 5-10% of cpu, making those files unplayable)


				Attila Kinali