[MPlayer-users] video slow - I think

[Anita Lewis]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 06:07:03PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:44:34 -0500
> Anita Lewis <ajlewis2 at intac.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm
> > wondering if it could help to put a SiS 6326 8MB card that I have laying
> > around into the machine.  I don't want to go to the bother of configuring X
> > and so on if it will not help.  
> 
> If you are using a mainboard with a ALI V chipset then it's most likely
> that you hit the bandwith limit of your mainboard (had the same problems
> with a k6-II 350). There are 2 ways of improving your performance:
> get a pII-400 (have about the 3 times better io performance)
> or imporve the io speed of your grafic card by getting a 
> matrox G400/G450/G550. Those have trough mga_vid the fastest
> io system. A G200 is also not bad, but due to a different
> picture format it eats some % of performance (i measured
> between 1% and 10% speed increase for the video output
> subsystem (ie not overall performance) by exchanging
>  a G200 by a G550)
> 
> 
> 		Attila Kinali

Sorry, I forgot something here.  The second machine which I am now using
has:
=========================from /proc/cpuinfo=============
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: CentaurHauls
cpu family	: 6
model		: 7
model name	: VIA Samuel 2
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 797.977
cache size	: 16388 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips	: 1592.52
===========================

The speed here is 800MHz.  This is the machine I was thinking about putting
the SiS 6326 into.  So are you saying that this card would not help and I
should get that Matrox instead? Maybe I should be using mplayer-686 with
this processor instead of 386.  I tried k6 with the AMD K6-2 and got no
sound at all. I've pretty much decided to leave the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD
player in the Microtel with the 800MHz processor.  I'm willing to upgrade
the video if it might help.  The PII processor won't go into it.  

Thanks so much for your reply.  

-- 
Anita
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