[MPlayer-dev-eng] non-free and undistributable files in tremor/

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:21:16AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> I sat down and did some benchmarks on my K6-III 500, Debian stable
> system with all services except getty instances stopped, running Linux
> 2.4.32 and MPlayer r19262.  I used the following two samples to test,
> the first is 10 minutes long, the second 70 minutes
> 
> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.ogg
> http://jdolan.dyndns.org/jaydolan/choons/Jay%20Dolan%20-%20Live%20(6-17-04).ogg

Results on my PowerBook G4, running Debian unstable, gcc 4.1.2, using
MPlayer r19312, so including the latest optimizations, the numbers are
the best of five consecutive runs.

mplayer -quiet -benchmark -afm ffmpeg -ao pcm:fast:file=/dev/null song37.ogg
BENCHMARKs: VC:   0.000s VO:   0.000s A:   4.673s Sys:   0.025s =    4.698s
BENCHMARK%: VC:  0.0000% VO:  0.0000% A: 99.4765% Sys:  0.5235% = 100.0000%

--enable-tremor-low:
mplayer -quiet -benchmark -ao pcm:fast:file=/dev/null song37.ogg
BENCHMARKs: VC:   0.000s VO:   0.000s A:   6.342s Sys:   0.020s =    6.363s
BENCHMARK%: VC:  0.0000% VO:  0.0000% A: 99.6785% Sys:  0.3215% = 100.0000%

mplayer -quiet -benchmark -ao pcm:fast:file=/dev/null song37.ogg
BENCHMARKs: VC:   0.000s VO:   0.000s A:   8.635s Sys:   0.023s =    8.658s
BENCHMARK%: VC:  0.0000% VO:  0.0000% A: 99.7343% Sys:  0.2657% = 100.0000%


mplayer -quiet -benchmark -afm ffmpeg -ao pcm:fast:file=/dev/null Jay Dolan - Live (6-17-04).ogg
BENCHMARKs: VC:   0.000s VO:   0.000s A:  29.876s Sys:   0.143s =   30.019s
BENCHMARK%: VC:  0.0000% VO:  0.0000% A: 99.5250% Sys:  0.4750% = 100.0000%

--enable-tremor-low:
mplayer -quiet -benchmark -ao pcm:fast:file=/dev/null Jay Dolan - Live (6-17-04).ogg
BENCHMARKs: VC:   0.000s VO:   0.000s A:  37.839s Sys:   0.140s =   37.979s
BENCHMARK%: VC:  0.0000% VO:  0.0000% A: 99.6322% Sys:  0.3678% = 100.0000%

mplayer -quiet -benchmark -ao pcm:fast:file=/dev/null Jay Dolan - Live (6-17-04).ogg
BENCHMARKs: VC:   0.000s VO:   0.000s A:  53.736s Sys:   0.173s =   53.910s
BENCHMARK%: VC:  0.0000% VO:  0.0000% A: 99.6783% Sys:  0.3217% = 100.0000%

This benchmark looks very favorable to ffvorbis, it even outperforms low
precision tremor.

Diego