AW: [MPlayer-users] how many graphiccards can mplayer handle at thesame time?

[justin case]

> are you having audio as well ?

afaik, yes.

> i/o issues maybe reading from hdd,
> shouldnt be
> a real problem but could possibly be. you could probably consume
> all the pci
> bandwidth, not sure of the problems that would cause but it cant be good.

well, the cause would certainly be to much data on the bus. i am not sure,
but i think some of the decoding of the videos are taken care of by the
graphics card itself. in that case i guess i shouldn't worry too much.

the biggest question actually is, if it is possible and how is it done,
than? i searched around with google a little, but couldn't find any good
information sources, yet..

> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:40 am, justin case wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > hi,
> >
> > i need an urgent information here:
> >
> > how many graphiccards can mplayer handle at the same time?
> >
> > given is a board with up to 8 pci-slots and a decent processor
> like pentium
> > 4 3ghz or similar and plenty ram.
> > i would use matrox graphiccards with tv-out, since that is needed.
> >
> > question: how many independend videos (mpeg2 or mpeg4) would i
> be able to
> > play at the same time. each video has to go to its own
> graphiccard/tv-out.
> >
> > as i always understood, mplayer should be able to handle as many
> > videos/cards as i have pci-slots, but#
> > a, i might be wrong here
> > b, the pci bus might overload at some point.
> >
> > can anybody reading here give me some more info?
> >
> >
> > many thx + regards,
> > /jc
> >
> >
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