[MPlayer-users] Encoding performances

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 07:48:28AM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:19:12 +0200
> Lucio Crusca <lucio at sulweb.org> wrote:
> 
> > Are you suggesting that on a Via C7 I'm better off with Xine than
> > mplayer?
> 
> For playback, particularly MPEG-4 playback performance, you are better
> off with VIA's (unichrome-patched) fork of Xine.  I don't believe the
> changes have made it back into vanilla Xine, but I could be wrong.

There is such a patched version of MPlayer as well, but the problems are
(unless something changed):
1) It is a heavily outdated version
2) The patches were never properly reviewed which usually means they are
quite buggy
3) The acceleration libs via uses only work as root, so you have to use
MPlayer as root.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger