[MPlayer-users] Excessive * audio codec cpu usage

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:02:14AM -0800, SycOtiC Smith wrote:
> 
> Other part, he isn't encoding on the same machine, so basically he is only running minimal system
> with mplayer 'streaming' the file across nfs.

Right.

> From my experience, this works well, IF the HDD on
> both ends are fast enough to keep up with cacheing and/or swap.

They most certainly should be.

Mplayer box (narrow scsi barracuda):

# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/foo bs=1024k count=50
50+0 records in
50+0 records out
0.01user 0.76system 0:05.99elapsed 12%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (141major+22minor)pagefaults 0swaps
# echo $((50 * 1024 * 1024 / 6 * 8))
69905064

The server is wide scsi/ATA100 IDE with newer faster disks.

But again, because the use of -cache <cache_size> on Mplayer elimiates
the problem, it cannot be a resource issue.

b.

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Brian J. Murrell