[MPlayer-users] Performance optimisation (DIVX playing)

[kyfmpl at fnord.to]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Stefan Lange wrote:

> > RAM: 384
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> There are some Super7-Boards that only have a cacheable area of 128 MB.
> In that case using more memory than 128 MB will slow things down.
>
> Try to find out if that's true for your mainboard, if yes reduce memory
> size to 128 MB and see if that gives any advantage.
>
Oops, I let that one slip completely by. My GA5AX only has 512M L2 cache.
Dropping down to 128M RAM sped things up some. Thank you :>

(snip)
> -vo tdfxfb (with your voodoo3) is also worth a try, it's quite fast.
> (but use a 24bit mode, with 16bit it looked awful on mine)
>
No speed improvements over -vo xv.