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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:38:41 +0100
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@hadiko.de>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Several mplayer issues
Message-ID:  <20011227123841.A10225@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20011226194830.GD86073@f113.hadiko.de>
References:  <20011224124518.A9586@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <20011226194830.GD86073@f113.hadiko.de>

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In local.freebsd-multimedia, you wrote:
>> 2) Playback on a P-III@750 in fullscreen is too slow?!
>> Is this right? The machine has lots of RAM and UDMA drives.
>> I get the best results with sdl, but have to live with skipped
>> frames or desynched audio/video :-(
>> mplayer was compiled from source and I made sure that MMX & SSE
>> are available.
> 
> No, 750 MHz are definitely NOT too slow. On my K7/1000 machine it takes
> about 40% CPU for fullscreen using sdl/x11/xv driver on a Matrox G200.
> Is it really slow or do you mean mplayer's stupid error message that
> "your system is too slow to play this"? This always happens when a
> single frame cannot be displayed, e.g. because of switching to a
> different workspace of your windowmanager.

No it *is* slow, as I said I can choose between desynched audio/video
or skipped frames :-/
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