[MPlayer-users] Re: recomended components for mplayer

[Forjan Frédéric]

Attila Kinali wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:10:33 +0200
> Banu Cosmin <sharpcoder at xnet.ro> wrote:
> 
> 
>>	I have a similar configuration, and i'd like to know what's the best system 
>>configuration (not too cheap, not too expensive) to use with mplayer ( ... 
>>and linux in general for multimedia), so we can get the best from your 
>>player.
>>
>>	I believe there are many people who want to know which is the best at the 
>>moment for home entertainment.
> 
> 
> Ok,
> Graphics card:
> Fastest are Matrox G200 and later with -vo (x)mga 
> (note that the G200 is slightly slower than the others due 
> different picture format)
> Then come all the cards which have a Xv driver, best is here to 
> choose either a Matrox (again :) or an ATI.
> nvidia is the worse choice you can make.
> 
> CPU: Anything faster than a PII 400 should do it up to high res
> divx (limit i got with a PII 400 and a G550 is at 720x480, can
> be lower for other cards). Be aware that K6-II/III altough they
> have the same CPU power are not so well suited as most of those
> mainboard have a very poor I/O performance
> (K6-II 350 on a ASUS P5A, ALI V chipset: 15MB/s to the craphic card,
> PII 400 on a ASUS(dont remember which one), Intel 440BX chipset: 70MB/s,
> both time messured with the same G200)
> 
> Soundcard: Any modern soundcard that has proper kernel driver
> (alsa drivers work too, but are known to make slightly more problems)
> Most ppl i know use a emu10k card (SB live etc), 
> so i think it's a save choice (but not the only one).
> 
> Hardisk: anything with fast drivers.
> SCSI is better than IDE as the driver uses less CPU,
> but it shouldnt matter that much as long as you use hdparm.
> 
> Note that i ordered the components by importance and
> also that the faster your CPU and/or graphic card is, the lower
> is the importance to have a fast soundcard or harddisk
> 
> 			Attila Kinali
> 
Do you have sample avi file to test it ?

It can be usefull to compare ourself with some station so can we have 
some result information ???? Show it on website ??

Forjan Frederic