[MPlayer-users] Playing large frame-size uncompressed sequences

[Dean S. Messing]

Gurus, 

Very soon our laboratory will be acquiring several sequences
of progressive HDTV data. 10 second long sequences.

Each frame is 1920x1440.  The data will either be
in YUV 4:2:2,  YUV 4:2:0, or RGB format, progressive, 60 fps.

I can convert the individual frames to any uncompressed format that
Mencoder/Mplayer would like in order for Mencoder to generate me a
playable file.


My question is: will Mplayer be able to play this in "real time"
(i.e. 60 fps) out of memory?  I'm prepared to put the 4 or 5 GBytes of
Ram in the machine and get whatever video card is necessary.  Will a
dual 1.3 GHz Athlon (or similar) machine handle the needed data rates?


                              Dean S. Messing
                              Display Algorithms & Visual Optimization Lab
                              Information Systems Technologies Dept.
                              Sharp Laboratories of America
                      E-Mail: deanm at sharplabs.com