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

[ACS]

Henry Garcia wrote:
> Dual Pentium III 850, 512MB RAM, SuperMicro P6DBE rev 3.1 motherboard.
>
> mplayer -vo xv -ao sdl -lavdopts threads=2 movie.avi
>
> 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.
>
> Mplayer rocks.

Out of curiosity, how does it run on a single CPU?
I'm always told that having a 2nd CPU won't do mplayer any good (video 
decoding single threaded)

Adrian