[MPlayer-users] Mplayer performance on Upgraded PowerBook Wallstreet
larrystotler at netscape.net
larrystotler at netscape.net
Tue Jul 18 18:32:02 CEST 2006
hello everyone. I have a question about playback performance on my
son's PowerBook. I just upgraded the cpu from the stock 233Mhz G3 w/
no L2 cache to a Powerlogix G3/466 w/ 1MB L2 cache. Considering that
my Thinkpad 390X w/ a P-III 450Mhz can play xvids with no problems, I
was really dissapointed to see the playback with this new processor on
the PowerBook. Even Mpeg2 playback is jerky and unwatchable. I have
completely recomplied everything(yasm, xvid, x264, libmad, mp3lame,
libavcodecs, Mplayer - in that order) with the same results in case
their was a significant difference in the processors with the same
results. Now, the onboard video is evidently a PCI based version of
the ATI Rage LT pro with 4MB VRAM, and the sound is the stock Apple. I
even removed the sound modules and tried running Mplayer to see if it
was the audio driver and no luck. So, my question is:
Is the laptop capable of playing movies without the hardware Cardbus
decoder card?
Would it help if I had a G4 w/ the Alltivec support instead of the G3?
Would I be better off with a newer powerbook, like a Lombard or Pismo,
or even a G3 iBook? Or a G4? a PowerBook with an AGO graphics
adapter(my Thinkpad 390X is a Neomagic 256/AGP 1x with 2.5MB VRAM) Mt
Thinkpad 600 P-II 300Mhz was actually better than this G3/466 and it
had PCI video as well(although still really unwatchable).
I am running openSuSE v10.0 with GCC 4.02 as the compiler and the newer
Mplayer1.0pre8. openSuSE v10.1 will not install on this machine.
Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanx
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