[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mplayer CPU time

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/16/05, Andrea Palmatè <andrea at amigasoft.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a question. Why mplayer use 50% of cpu time
> even if i use -ao null -vo null? It is possible
> that it use so many cpu time? what are the
> critical functions that i can try to optimize?
> O use a port of mplayer with AmigaOS and Altivec enabled.

That's because it will still decode audio and video, but won't display
anything, as well as it won't send any audio to your sound card.

If you wanna skip audio or video, you can use "-nosound" or "-vc dummy".

Guillaume
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