Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:46:09 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Mike Holling <myke@fks.bt> Cc: Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@over.ru>, Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>, Heiko Schaefer <320048919767-0001@t-online.de>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VideoCD and/or MPEG4 players for FreeBSD Message-ID: <3A101AD0.FA06AAB9@mitre.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0011101506571.2255-100000@hammerhead.fks.lan>
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Mike Holling wrote: > > > On my AMD-K6-300, it gives 100% frame loss. I.e. no picture except paused. > > > > Is it THAT slow? Or something deeply > > FreeBSD-of-that-exact-date-on-that-exact-CPU-related? > > I get the same results on my K2-350 system. I have one demo mpeg4 that > plays somewhat, and is almost viewable with sound disabled. However none > of the movie trailer clips I've downloaded will play at all, except for > the sound. I've had friends tell me their PII 400 systems work, maybe > there is a design difference between the CPUs that's crucial for this app? Well, you might also look into other factors. My PII 400 plays Divx and MPEG4 streams just fine, even with a bit of load in the background. One BIG factor is which X server you are using. XFree 3.3.6 is a CPU hog when it comes to blitting sections of the screen over and over again. In fact a good well supported video card can make as much difference as your CPU with XFree. I'm using an old Mystique G200 with XFree 4.0.1, with the DRI stuff enabled. In addition, try not to run flashy windowmanagers/desk utilities (or dockapps) with a lot of animation, since X is apparently rather poor at context switching between different animations. I've heard a rumor (but never tested it myself) that X runs a lot faster if you turn off EVERYTHING (including your windowmanager) in X when you want to run a screen update intensive appliction. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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