[Mplayer-dvb] CPU power

[Steffen Barszus]

On Friday 29 November 2002 22:33, bill root wrote:
> >Steffen (with a 1,1 Ghz duron playing nearly all fine. 50 % CPU usage)
>
> wow...how u make that ?? :)
> I'm always around 80-90%! Same number with my 1ghz or my 1.8ghz!

mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -vop lavc,expand=720:576,scale=720:400 
/mnt/win_c/filme/herr-der-ringe-cd1.avi

top:
31159 root      18   0 12352  12M  2044 R    59,3  2,3   1:51 mplayer

With decreasing quality of lavc or decreasing the resolution (the DVB can 
upscale on certain resolutions (look in the manual)) you can decrease the 
CPU-usage more. And of course it depends on the resoltion of the played 
video.

Greets

Steffen