[MPlayer-users] [OT] ffmpeg and the DLL codecs for WMV (etc)

[Abu Zaher]

>
> More than that, the performance of VP3 (and Theora) goes downhill
> quickly.  It seems if you use a resolution large enough that a full
> frame can't fit in your L2 cache, performance instantly goes from
> _faster than MPEG4_ down to _slower than h.264_.  That means even D1
> (720x480) is ridiculously slow.
>

agreed, I remember encoding a 720x480 23.976fps movie into theora that
crawled when I played it on my 850MHz CPU, while the movie played fine
with xvid or divx