[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

[Bohdan Horst]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:43:29AM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:46:49PM +0100, Korosi Akos wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 
> > Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz at kde.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I understand that I cannot play full DVD's with it (well, software DVD players 
> > > requires at least Pentium 350 + 128MB RAM), but I was wondering how good will 
> > > it be when it comes to playing AVI, DiVX3/4/5 files in a window or in full 
> > > screen? any good suggestions for tweaking to make it run fast? (I'm using KDE 
> > > 3 but I can switch to Window Maker of XFCE if needed)..
> > 
> > As I know, the best performace to use MPlayer is with
> > svgalib. Of course svgalib has to support your video
> > card (or chipset). Look for details at www.svgalib.org
> 
> Huh? SVGAlib will be very slow because it requires colorspace
> conversion. The fastest is mga_vid/vidix, and second place after that
> is xv.
> 

my Xv is slover than DGA, X11 even AA .. ;))))

benchmarks: (P3 500MHz 100 frames from microcosmos DVD)

VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  25,00 fps  4837,0 kbps (604,6 kbyte/s)                          

XV: BENCHMARKs: VC:   1,589s VO:   4,197s A:   0,000s Sys:   0,158s = 5,944s
X11:BENCHMARKs: VC:   1,807s VO:   3,358s A:   0,000s Sys:   0,172s = 5,337s
AA: BENCHMARKs: VC:   2,218s VO:   2,858s A:   0,000s Sys:   0,192s = 5,268s
DGA:BENCHMARKs: VC:   2,871s VO:   0,842s A:   0,000s Sys:   0,167s = 3,879s 

(Neomagic NM2360)

best regards

-vop yuy2 doesn;t help ;)
BENCHMARKs: VC:   1,575s VO:   4,422s A:   0,000s Sys:   0,168s = 6,165s



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