[MPlayer-users] Xv performance vs xvidix's

[Joonas Koivunen]

Hey,

Not too long ago there was some discussion which included the 1280x720 
resolution movie sample from page http://heroinewarrior.com/xmovie.php3. 
MPlayer yes isn't able to play the audio..

My system is
o Athlon XP +1800 (Thoroughbred)
o 768MB RAM 266MHz (ddr)
o XFree86 4.3.0 release for my Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB based card
o Linux 2.6.0-pre6
o MPlayer  1.0pre2 (gcc 3.2.2)

Use of xv as videout.. Under some load (~0.25) with mplayer and X running at 
the same nice (=-5).
BENCHMARKs: VC:  20.269s VO:  22.524s A:   0.000s Sys:   1.048s =   43.841s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 46.2333% VO: 51.3760% A:  0.0000% Sys:  2.3907% = 100.0000%

With videout xvidix, mplayer running with nice -5, the same background load:
BENCHMARKs: VC:  34.441s VO:   0.038s A:   0.000s Sys:   1.109s =   35.588s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 96.7779% VO:  0.1070% A:  0.0000% Sys:  3.1150% = 100.0000%

The xvidix vo time is so much smaller than xv's.. Have I misconfigured 
something, are XFree86 drivers very suboptimal or is XVidix just better by 
design?

Please note, I only ran once for those benchmarks, there is probably a lot of 
error..

-rzei