Minimal hw config for h264 720p ? (was: [Mplayer-users]playing HDvideo)

[kofboy]

Henry Garcia,

"-lavdopts threads=2" is not use for decode h264 useing libavcodec.

the best decoder is CoreAVC under Windows, it's faster than libavcodec and surpot SMP.

 	

>Dual Pentium III 850, 512MB RAM, SuperMicro P6DBE rev 3.1 motherboard.
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>mplayer -vo xv -ao sdl -lavdopts threads=2 movie.avi
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>Doing about 40-50% CPU load. Sometimes 25%. Plays smooth. Using Latest CVS
>version. h264 files encoded with mencoder play about 20% faster than
>QuickTime (under Windows) encoded 264 files.
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>Mplayer rocks.
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>On 1/30/07, Vitezslav Kotrla <vitko at post.cz> wrote:
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>> Dominique Dumont pí?e v út 30. 01. 2007 v 20:34 +0100:
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>> > I currently have an AMD XP3200, and viewing these kind of video (with
>> > XV on a radeon 9200) is very difficult: I have to stop all running
>> > daemons to be able to have "relatively" smooth video.
>>
>> Slightly OT:
>>
>> I've just tried serenity_1080p.mov from Apple's HD demos, on Athlon 64
>> X2 4200+ in 64bit Debian (Sid) I got around 50-60 % CPU load in high
>> motion scenes, in "credits" scenes which are black and show only some
>> static letters the CPU load was 20-30 %. CPU runs @ 2.2 GHz.
>>
>> Vit
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