[MPlayer-users] Just wondering

[Guillaume POIRIER]

On 9/27/06, Alexander Strop <strop at erlm.siemens.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday i tested the performance from mencoder on two different
> plattforms. I compiled 1.0pre7try2 on a Itanium 1.6 with Debian 3.1 and
> on a Pentium4 Xeon 2.5 Ghz (HP Compaq DL380).
> Then i encoded a Mpg2 file to Mpeg4 with mp3 sound. This file is about 4MB.
> Encoding on the Itanium Machine: 1min. 15sec.
> Encoding on the DL380: 45 sec.

Mainly because x264 is ultra-optimized for x86 CPUs though
hand-written ASM, and Itanium port doesn't have any.

Guillaume

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