[MPlayer-users] Anybody playing Blu-Rays well without VDPAU/VAAPI?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 20:11:21 CEST 2010


>>>> Software Blu-Ray playback at 60% CPU load?
>>>
>>> I can confirm the 60% (of one core) for a Core 2 Duo 6MB @3GHz.
>>
>> Actually now that you mention is, so can I.  mplayer has come a long
>> way since I last tried it with Blu-Ray.  gstreamer performance is
>> terrible though, and unfortunately that's what miro uses.
>>
>
>
> I'll have to compile the new svn to test.  However, to date so far, I've
> been using the mplayer-mt branch (which sadly, can no longer be downloaded
> without patching ffmpeg-mt in yourself) to great success. Even my crappy
> dual core AMD notebook can software decode HD between the two cores.

Gentoo has an ebuild called mplayer-uau which uses mplayer-mt and
ffmpeg-mt.  It works great.

- Grant


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