[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: about hardware acceleration using X video

[Mark Hannessen]

I have an Pentium 3 500 with a TNT 2 32 MB (that's much less then a geforce4)
and never had problems with playback of any files. ( except with the mpegpes 
files my dvb tv card generates. )

well, it's been more than a year ago since i last checked but at least it 
proves that it CAN work ok.

Mark

> > My Duron 800 has never had any trouble keeping up playing DVDs or MPEG-4
> > video of any size using xv on my TNT2 Vanta. I'm also using the Nvidia
> > proprietary driver version 1.0-4363. Playing DVDs, my CPU is about 55%
> > to 70% idle, so I'd expect your machine to be able to keep up. Perhaps
> > we could see a problem in your mplayer output.
>
> But isn't Duron 800 an unfair comparison to Celeron 500?
> IIRC Celerons don't perform all that well, and the 3dnow asm stuff
> we have performs better than the mmx.  Then take into account the speed
> difference and the fact that AMD's have a different structure as far as
> the ALU's are concerned...  I would expect a Celeron 500 to barely be
> able to keep up.  50% frame dropping doesn't seem normal, but anyhow...
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> --Joey