[MPlayer-users] Linux 2.6.20 mplayer rc1 overwhelmed playing 720p mkv...

[CD Baric]

On 6/27/07, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:09:29PM -0700, CD Baric wrote:
> [...]
> > I find it hard to believe that a 1.8 GHz CPU with 1 Gig of memory is
> > too slow to play these files - there must be something wrong with the
> > mkv decoding or container system.

> No, you forgot the critical point: a _Celeron_ 1.8GHz. I'd think that
> one is still NetBurst-based, IOW one of the crappiest CPU designs in the
> last 5 years or so. That think almost certainly can't handle anything
> more than DVD-size H.264. Even that might be borderline with the most
> extreme encoding options for H.264.

I am sorry - I made a mistake. It is not a Celleron, it is a Duron 1.8
GHz stepping 1 with 64K instruction and 64K data L1 cache and 64K L2
cache.

I agree the Intel Celeron is a crippled product (by design no less).

I have no excuse for my blunder - perhaps a brain-fart.

> > One last thought - how do I rip a mkv file into an avi file format?

> The container format doesn't matter much, the video codec is the
> problem.
> I use this to reencode very quickly to MPEG4 for my DVD player where
> size does not matter:
> mencoder -ffourcc DX50 -ovc lavc -lavcopts autoaspect:vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=0:turbo:vqscale=2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=standard "$@"

Thanks very much - these all go into my mencoder recipe book.

> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger

Best regards Reimar,

Bar