[MPlayer-dev-eng] MplayerXP vs Mplayer. Hall of truth.

[daniel carter]

Daniel Egger wrote:

> Especially for your Celeron-266 the right idea would be to make sure
> that there's enough data predecoded before running into a series of
> frames where the CPU really needs power to decode them so the goal
> should be to equalize the load over a bigger period of time (like maybe
> 50-100ms) to ensure that slower CPUs have enough time to compensate
> instead of dropping frames. This is exactly what you're trying with your
> threads approach and it seems to work for this particular case but it's
> not improving the situation in general.

What would improve the situation in general then?