[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:50:33PM +0000, Roberto De Leo wrote:
> >Hmm, I assume you're using -framedrop and your movies are 320x240 or
> >so. AFAIK P166 doesnt even have MMX, which is almost necessary for
> >DCT-based codecs (MPEG*) to be fast.
> >
> My P166 _has_ MMX, luckily :-)

Ah nice!

> >And then there's the fact that
> >the PCI bus is too slow for high-res video, especially in RGB space
> >where you can't transfer downsampled U/V planes. My K6-2/450 is even
> >slightly too slow to play dvds without -framedrop, so I really doubt
> >there's any way you could play them on P100...
> >
> Well, ok, I hadn't thought to the problem of the speed of the PCI bus.
> BTW, I guess you are referring to the bus speed increase from 66MHz to 
> 100MHz,
> right?

PCI bus is 33 mhz. :( (Or it can go up as high as 42-45 mhz if you
play around with base clock/multiplier stuff on modern motherboards,
but increasing the PCI bus speed that much usually makes things
crash.)

Rich