[MPlayer-users] Encoding too slow on AMD Athlon 64 3000+ comparing with Pentium Celeron M 1, 4

[Corey Hickey]

Martin Kamín wrote:
> time bzip2 final.mpeg -c > /dev/null
> real    10m14.901s
> user    8m42.181s
> sys     0m4.400s
> Note that final.mpeg is ordinary movie mpeg file  - 644,5 MB size.

That seems about right. Maybe a little slow. What I really meant was for 
you to compare bzipping the same file on your Athlon64 and your Pentium 
4, but it's probably not necessary.

>> Is your hard disk working properly? Check DMA:
>> # hdparm -d /dev/sda
>> (replace sda with whatever disk you're using)
>> ...or run a quick test:
>> # hdparm -t /dev/sda
> 
> I thing it is working streamless.
> zeus:~/main # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   1748 MB in  2.00 seconds = 873.95 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  166 MB in  3.02 seconds =  54.96 MB/sec
> zeus:~/main # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing cached reads:   1820 MB in  2.00 seconds = 909.94 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  174 MB in  3.02 seconds =  57.54 MB/sec

Looks fine.

>> Are you using a recent enough xvid? What compiler are you using?
> 
> gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
> I compiled xvidcore-1.1.0.tar.bz myself now.
> Still SLOW, SLOW...

Probably nothing wrong there...

-Corey