[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:16:34AM +0100, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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) ...

Hmm, what is FPU used for in playing DVD, aside from the ac3 decoder??

Rich