[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 03:31:50PM +0000, Roberto De Leo wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> >
> >false!
> >i have p2-250mhz test machine with 128mb ram, and it plays both matrix.vob
> >with 3% framedrop and the 1800kbps 620x576 sw ep1 DIVX3 trailer with 0
> >framedrop well.  using a matrox g200... with the mga_vid kernel module...
> >
> Hmm... I believe Hentz was asking if he could get a decent playback 
> quality using
> _software_ acceleration.
> My knowledge of mplayer is not very deep but as a rule of thumb I'd 
> expect that
> if hardware acceleration is available then also a PentiumI 100MHz can be 
> enough...

This is not hardware acceleration, it's hardware support for YUV
colorspace, plus drivers that allow you to write directly to video
memory rather than letting the slow broken xf86 drivers copy the image
around and convert it multiple times before actually displaying it.

Rich