[MPlayer-users] DVD final analysis

[Rene Bartsch]

Am Son, 2002-06-16 um 18.36 schrieb Arpi:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > On Sunday, 16 June 2002, Brian wrote:
> > [snip] 
> > > but thats not the point, it can play DVD using powerDVD, mplayer can't.
> > > WHY!
> > 
> > Perhaps you should ask the powerDVD guys. :-P
> > Or donate such board and specs to mplayer developers. That'd probably
> > help, too.
> 
> no, his time
> i know that cpu, at least the 200mhz variant, it runs at the speed of my
> oldy 486dx33, has mmx, but no tsc and some other basic feature of p1 cpus
> in short: it's a shit, like arm and other embedded things.
> it's not designed for software decoding, just to control stuff like hw
> decoders, web browsers etc in a settopbox
> 
> (i'm designing and programming embedded routers and firewalls in my
> commercial job for an ISP - we failed to get that 200mhz thing to do
> dnat/masquerading for 2mbit upling - it was just too slow, it stops around
> 1.7mbit)
> 
> if someone is really interested, get teh specs from cyrix, and hand-optimize
> all the asm stuff like idct and mc in teh mpeg2 and mp3 decoders.
> i doubt that intel/amd mmx pipelining match the cyrix one, so you has to at
> least reorder isntructions to fit the single pipe of that cpu
> 
> 

Might be another reason, too. PowerDVD uses GPU-power to decode/display
MPEG. Does MPlayer use the GPU for MPEG-decoding?

Rene