[MPlayer-users] "too slow" even with a modern system?

[Roger Pack]

> Unless your FFmpeg was built against libx264, the new file will be
> MPEG-4 ASP and not H.264, which is more than that 30% faster that
> your computer is too slow.

A little OT here, but could you give me any information about mp4
being faster? Are you saying here that mp4 encodes faster, but perhaps
generates larger files than its x264 equivalent?
Thanks, just wondering. :)
-roger-