[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] README

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 03:22:48AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > (which is a good bit slower than P3 800) can play DVDs with tolerably
> > low frame dropping using -vo fbdev. Of course -vo x11 is a good bit
> > slower perhaps.
> 
> i meant with no framedrop. even a 486 can play dvd, with 98% framedrop :)

Only -hardframedrop. Normal framedrop will only help if the machine is
fast enough to decode but not to copy to the screen, right?

> and fbdev is a way accelerated, at least it set up the card, mtrr etc,
> compared to x11 most users try first. especially when you try -fs -zoom

Ah, I forgot they do that. :) Having mga_vid makes one forget such
horrid black magic. Actually fbdev is prolly faster than xv even with
the colorspace convert, since X does all kindsa silly extra copying or
something.

> > IMHO, enough people out there are already confused that "mplayer needs
> > win32 dlls to do anything", so it's best not to further that
> > misconception even more in the INSTALL file.
> 
> agree
> 
> but there is the other side too - without them mplayer can't do more than
> xine or avifile :)

Yeah, but it can do what it does without requiring a 2 GHz box. :)

Rich