[MPlayer-users] Encoding performances

[RC]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:05:54 +0200
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> > 3. What's the best quality/speed/fps tradeoff to have a decent mpeg4
> > playing  smoothly with mplayer on a Via C7 1Ghz with Unichrome Pro
> > IGP graphics  adapter, openchrome drivers at 1024x768x32?
> 
> I don't know how much this Unichrome model sucks, but on my old Athlon
> 800 I always had enough CPU left during MPEG4 decoding (though
> resolutions were only around 720x576, 

The problem isn't the crappy graphics, it's the crappy underpowered
VIA CPU, which will perform more like a ~500MHz Athlon.

That's why hardware acceleration is so important for them, and they made
their own branch of Xine just to make sure Linux users could use it.