[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:43:59PM -0500, D Richard Felker III 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. 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

Well, AMD K6-2/450 even with hardware colourspace transformation help
(so mga_vid.o ;-) is a border-line case to play an average DVD according
my tests. However I think this is because the weak FPU of AMD K6-2, because
according to Arpi, it's possible to play DVD on a P2/250 (or so) ...

- Gábor (larta'H)