[MPlayer-users] some benchmarks on lowend machine

[Bohdan Horst]

MPlayer CVS-020411-23:16-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)                            

Wing Commander trailer (1424 frames):
VIDEO:  [DIV3]  640x360  24bpp  24.00 fps  846.9 kbps (103.4 kbyte/s)
-vo xv -vfm 5

1) standard
-nosound -benchmark
BENCHMARKs: VC:  34.780s VO:  17.661s A:   0.000s Sys:   3.244s =   55.685s
BENCHMARKs: VC:  35.178s VO:  17.486s A:   0.000s Sys:   3.115s =   55.779s

2) DR (enabled by expand plugin)
-nosound -benchmark -vop expand -dr
BENCHMARKs: VC:  27.531s VO:  25.198s A:   0.000s Sys:   3.080s =   55.809s
BENCHMARKs: VC:  27.963s VO:  24.788s A:   0.000s Sys:   2.985s =   55.736s

3) SW*2 downscale, HW*2 upscale, fastest sws, DR (enabled by scale plugin)
-nosound -benchmark -vop scale=320:180 -x 640 -y 360 -sws 4 -dr
BENCHMARKs: VC:  27.918s VO:  12.198s A:   0.000s Sys:   3.041s =   43.157s
BENCHMARKs: VC:  27.935s VO:  12.348s A:   0.000s Sys:   3.038s =   43.321s

4) SW*4 downscale, HW*4 upscale, fastest sws, DR (enabled by scale plugin)
-nosound -benchmark -vop scale=160:90  -x 640 -y 360 -sws 4 -dr
BENCHMARKs: VC:  27.034s VO:   4.595s A:   0.000s Sys:   2.944s =   34.572s
BENCHMARKs: VC:  27.183s VO:   4.578s A:   0.000s Sys:   3.041s =   34.802s

comments:
1 look good:)
2 look good and work better than 1 on lowend machine (less framedrop)
3 look slighty worse but acceptable (better than framedrop:)
4 look worst - maybe unacceptable;) (better than no video at all:)

best regards

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