[MPlayer-dev-eng] Make ffmpeg MPEG1/2 decoder the default?

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:18:38AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:38:36PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > libmpeg2 may be still slightly faster (though probably not on the newer CPUs),
> > but it is quite crash-happy and otherwise buggy (see also 34582.mxf in
> > incoming).
> > Thus I am for making FFmpeg decoder the default, any objections?
> 
> I'm not too convinced of this since libmpeg2 was still faster the last
> time I tried and now we have a pending patch with further speedup.  I
> propose running benchmarks on many different CPUs instead.  Let's find
> out which one really is the fastest.  Maybe we can motivate somebody to
> try making FFmpeg speedier...

As it seems noone mentioned it yet in this thread ...
dont forget 
-lavdopts fast
-lavdopts threads
disable ENABLE_GRAY (mplayer enables it by default)

And people wanting to imporove ffmpeg12 see
http://roundup.mplayerhq.hu/roundup/ffmpeg/issue100

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