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

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Marc MERLIN <marc_mplayer <at> merlins.org> writes:

> > What Reimar said (use -vo gl) will probably make all the difference, but
> > please note that the MPlayer version you have on the dual core (desktop)
> > looks to me as if it was intentionally broken by the packager.
> 
> which piece is broken from what you saw?

The packager of your MPlayer version intentionally compiled it with 
several hundred known regressions (that are not reproducible with 
MPlayer), some of them may be security relevant.
That is not necessarily connected to your problem (I don't know).

Carl Eugen