[MPlayer-users] Which card should I buy for TV-out?

[Thomas Larsen]

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:20, pl wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:30:59AM +0100, Sigurd Urdahl wrote:
> 
> > > It also filters all it's ouput before sending it to the tv, on the
> > > negative side, if you plan to wathc any non-mpeg content you need a
> > > machine with SSE and at least 400MHz or otherwise it'll be too slow
> > 
> > Is there anything to gain here for a SMP system? (Yes, I have a dual
> > PII, and thus no SSE)
> Not really as MPlayer is not multithreaded (and it's not easily doable).
> 

But you can play a movie with mplayer and encode another with mencoder
at the same time :-)

/Thomas