[MPlayer-users] Playing multiple files at the same time?

[Oliver Seitz]

> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:26:30PM +0100, Oliver Seitz wrote:
>> So when writing software that is to be run on arbitrary machines it
>> might
>> be a good idea to at least avoid runtime scaling on more than one video
>> simultaneously. I think we can agree on that, no?
>
> I don't think there's any graphics card that can't run more than one
> -vo gl if they support OpenGL at all (of course with PCI cards you have
> to be careful not to saturate the PCI bandwidth).
> And the Intel 945GM has enough power to play at least two DVD-resolution
> videos with -vo gl:yuv=2 (i.e. hardware OpenGL YUV->RGB conversion) at the
> same time (and it provides 16 XVideo ports anyway, admittedly textured
> XVideo
> so it is basically the same as -vo gl:yuv=2, though probably a bit
> faster).
> For OpenGL this applies down to GeForce 3-generation graphics cards,
> though
> you'll have to use -vo gl:yuv=1 or -vo gl:yuv=5 instead to get accelerated
> YUV->RGB, or if you can afford the conversion on the CPU, it should work
> with
> plain -vo gl down to TNT2-generation cards (including some of the VIA
> ones,
> if you manage to get OpenGL to work at all on them, personally I don't
> envy anyone who has to make things work on VIA graphics stuff, I don't
> know
> if there's anything they can do properly up to and including plain 80x25
> text).

Ok... So i realize I've only been to lazy to find out how to play more
than one video a time accellerated... Thanks for the bunch of hints to
experiment on!

Greets,
Kiste


(From a 2GHZ VIA machine that's indeed near it's limits when playing DVD...)