[MPlayer-users] minimal CPU requirement to play high bitrate 1080p video in software?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 10:34:06PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:05:11AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On 7 Aug 2012, at 20:59, Marc MERLIN <marc_mplayer at merlins.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 08:00:41PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > >>>> VDec: using Planar 420P 10-bit little-endian as output csp (no 3)
> > >> 
> > >> Your specific file is a 10-bit H.264 file, which and XVideo does not
> > >> support 10-bit surfaces (at least no implementation I know of does),
> > >> which means using xv needs and additional software conversion.
> > >> Unfortunately you cut the status line output, otherwise I could have
> > >> told you approximately how much performance that costs.
> > > 
> > > Sorry. What do those lines look like so I can find them?
> > 
> > It's those starting with V: that give the current playback time. With xv the second % number should be about the CPU usage for conversion.
> 
> mplayer -v Game.of.Thrones.S01.Ep01.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-ESiR.mkv  2>&1|
> grep V:
> Sorry, I tried:
> mplayer -v file.mkv 2>&1| grep V:
> and I got nothing out of it.

You don't need any -v or anything to get it.
If you don't get anything you probably disabled it in your config file,
try -noquiet or -noconfig all

> > Yes, that happens when 16 bit textures are not working.
> > It should be working with Mesa driver versions released this year if using the i965 driver (the i915 is more complicated, I have a hack that makes it decode to around 8 shades of grey instead - a result I don't understand yet...).
> > 
> > > I have libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11.2-1 on debian 64bit on my laptop.
> > 
> > Not completely sure, but I suspect for your GPU it would work with something newer like mesa 8.0.3 or such.
> 
> Indeed, they just released an update. I got 8.0.3 and it works too now.
> 
> Thats said, -vo xv and -vo gl look about the same to me and seem to take the
> same amount of CPU.
> Is -vo gl better somehow?

It has a lot more features. That may or may not matter for you.
It does display the OSD and subtitles at full screen resolution instead
of just the video resolution for example.
It also is slightly more likely to have working vsync on a secondary
display.
Probably lots of small stuff I don't remember right now.