[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

gabor gabor at realtime.sk
Thu Nov 7 22:11:02 CET 2002


On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 21:11, Green, Shaun wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >No, MUCH slower. Anything RGB-based is slow (non-xv SDL, x11, svgalib,
> >dga, fbdev, ...). Anything that involves multiple copying or
> >conversion steps is slow (x11, xv, X-based SDL). Those listed in both
> >categories are doubly slow. The fast vo's are the direct access
> >YUV-space ones (mga, xmga, vesa:vidix, xvidix, tdfxfb).
> 
> > I'm using an AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz.
> 
> >Then it doesn't matter what vo you use.
> 
> Well, I've seen small sporadic jumps in movies sometimes even with -vo xv.
> So I'd still like to use the fastest possible :o) Of course then I stepped
> back just to make sure the movie wasn't bad.
> 
> So could I just use syntax like; 
> 
> mplayer -vo vesa:vidix -nortc -fs -double foo.avi
> 
> and also replace vidix with xvidix in the above command?
> 
> Does an NVIDIA based card (Geforce), support use of vidix? I don't remember
> vidix being an available codec when I compiled pre9 -


it does not and will not ( no sources&specs available )

bye,
gabor

> Thanks,
> 
> Shaun
> 
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