[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] new mpeg muxer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:24:39PM +0100, Roine Gustafsson wrote:
> 
> On Feb 27, 2005, at 7:20 PM, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >Yes...this is a major problem, dammit. I've said it 1000 times it
> >feels like, but I'll say once again: I FUCKING HATE B FRAMES!!!!!!!
> >
> >Whoever came up with such idiocy should be tied to heavy rocks and
> >thrown into a huge vat of cola!!
> 
> FWIW: I like B-frames. My laptop is not really capable of full 24fps in 
> D1 resolution, which makes playing high resolution movies with just P 

Are you sure? What speed is your laptop? I expect the problem is
something else, like using a bad vo driver or software scaling.. Even
my celeron 366 laptop can play any movie I throw at it, without
-framedrop at all.

> frames very skippy. The player has to skip long segments to the next 
> I-frame to catch up.
> With interleaved B-frames the player can drop exactly the frames it 
> can't manage to decode and playback is smoooth and audio never drifts.

Unless you drop a huge portion of the B frames, decoding a movie with
B frames is significantly slower than decoding one without.

Rich