audio/visual

[ulrich steffens]

this is what the commandline shows:

tazio at rockarolla ~ $ mplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6,
Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

installed is mplayer-k6.

the friendly gentoo guy is me, i used it till i found the
warty-preview.iso :) for instance if you compile mplayer on gentoo,
theres a message that says that cpu-optimizations are disabled cause the
mplayer-team refuses support if such things are disabled. i suspect this
is not specific to gentoo and applies to all distributions. 
if xou happen to install mplayer on gentoo youll notive that viewing
fullscreen sucks cause all optimizations are dropped and mplayer eats
100%cpu while playing 10 frames/sec...

also lots of things mostly dont work with precompiled versions of
mplayer (for me at least). i never had a precompiled mplayer that
actually zooms the movie while window resizing, and so on...

and i DON'T run a selfcompiled mplayer cause im tired of compiling AND
totem-gstreamer with gstreamer-ffmpeg installed works like a charm :-P


ulrich

Am Donnerstag, den 07.04.2005, 16:27 +0200 schrieb Erik Bågfors:
> > 
> > i think that the mplayer issue is that it needs lots of love while
> > compiling to play nice. for instance, nearly all distributions ship
> > mplayer without the many optimizations for specific cpus.
> > even gentoo avoids enabling cpu optimizations unless you enable this for
> > yourself. so for good performance in mplayer i found compiling your own
> > is mostly necessary.
> 
> 1) try
> apt-cache search mplayer and you'll find
> mplayer-386 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
> mplayer-586 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
> mplayer-686 - transitional dummy package which can be safely removed
> mplayer-custom - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
> mplayer-doc - Documentation for mplayer
> mplayer-fonts - Fonts for mplayer
> mplayer-k6 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
> mplayer-k7 - transitional dummy package which can be safely removed
> 
> So, you are simply wrong that ubuntu doesn't enable cpu opimizations.
> 
> 2) mplayer will also do some cpu opimizations in real time. (which is
> why 686 is now included in 586 I guess?)
> Compiling from source doesn't always make things better/faster/cooler,
> even if your friendly gentoo guy tells you so.
> 
> Regards,
> Erik
> 
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- ulrich
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