From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 18:54:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870A01065674 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:54:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297CA8FC23 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7JIss2h062430; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:54:53 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_Bergstr=F6m?= Message-ID: <20100819185453.GA90635@thought.org> References: <20100819011024.GA10288@thought.org> <4C6C8833.50108@pathscale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C6C8833.50108@pathscale.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: well, i guess it's time to ask..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:54:58 -0000 On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:26:11AM +0700, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >ok guys, > >i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful > >computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait > >until fall to ask, but it's close enough. > > > >can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. > > > (Disclaimer I work for a commercial compiler company) > > If you experience problems with performance of Atom I would generally > not blame the processor. There are *zero* very well tuned compilers for > Atom that I'm aware of. Most are content that the compiler works good > enough(tm) and it's difficult (impossible) to get the low level timing > data details out of Intel. Unless you're hand writing inline asm > (*cough* ffmpeg) then it's certainly possible the code isn't optimized > well enough. Depending on what else the processor is busy with, codec > type and video size it should certainly possible to stream an "average" > sized movie with no problem. Now can it handle Blu-ray I doubt it... i am not planning on watching a movie that is on a DVD-RW but via [say] kmplayer via video stream. and rather than the std 'movie-length' of 120 minutes, an hour or less streamed by PBS. with my 2.4ghz Dell loaded at its usual 0.25 - 0.4, and using kmplayer or vlc, the video is jerky or hangs for several seconds. i probably should get-real and use whatever notebook i buy for what i originally intended it for: as a small and usable computer than can produce understandable speech. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org