[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:46:49PM +0100, Korosi Akos wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> > I understand that I cannot play full DVD's with it (well, software DVD players 
> > requires at least Pentium 350 + 128MB RAM), but I was wondering how good will 
> > it be when it comes to playing AVI, DiVX3/4/5 files in a window or in full 
> > screen? any good suggestions for tweaking to make it run fast? (I'm using KDE 
> > 3 but I can switch to Window Maker of XFCE if needed)..
> 
> As I know, the best performace to use MPlayer is with
> svgalib. Of course svgalib has to support your video
> card (or chipset). Look for details at www.svgalib.org

Huh? SVGAlib will be very slow because it requires colorspace
conversion. The fastest is mga_vid/vidix, and second place after that
is xv.

Rich