[MPlayer-users] small machine mPlayer only

[Attila Kinali]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:41:19 -0400
"Mihai Frimu" <mihaif at boiteorange.com> wrote:

PLEASE SWITCH HTML MAILS OFF!

And your lines are damn too long (max should be 65 in mailinglists)
Use the enter key if your mail client cant break them correctly.

> 1. In terms of performance, compared to Windows98se or WindowsXP how does Mplayer compare?

Dont compare apples with bananas, one is a fruit, the other a nut.
mplayer is a movie player, window... well... ;)
 
> I'm using a computer with a 350MHz Celeron CPU, 128MB Ram. 
> 
> I need full screen playback of MPEG1 video files at 1024x768 resolution.
> In windows98se, it's acceptabe. I installed RedHat 9 and mplayer but in 
> full screen it is very slow, even with framedrop. 

Sure it is, you dont have the i/o power to transfere that much data
from your RAM to the graphics card, celeron mainboards are
just too slow for this.

> 2. I would like to make this computer only play mpeg1  files 
>via the command line (no user interface/GUI). Would that improve 
>performance? Which -vo's do I have to use 
>(my system has a SiS300 video chipset. What else might help improve speed?


You didnt read the documentation, did you ?

			Attila Kinali


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