[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] new mpeg muxer

[Roine Gustafsson]

On Feb 28, 2005, at 4:39 PM, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:46:03AM +0100, Roine Gustafsson wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2005, at 12:56 AM, D Richard Felker III wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:24:39PM +0100, Roine Gustafsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 27, 2005, at 7:20 PM, D Richard Felker III wrote:
>>>>> Yes...this is a major problem, dammit. I've said it 1000 times it
>>>>> feels like, but I'll say once again: I FUCKING HATE B FRAMES!!!!!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> Whoever came up with such idiocy should be tied to heavy rocks and
>>>>> thrown into a huge vat of cola!!
>>>>
>>>> FWIW: I like B-frames. My laptop is not really capable of full 24fps
>>>> in
>>>> D1 resolution, which makes playing high resolution movies with just 
>>>> P
>>>
>>> Are you sure? What speed is your laptop? I expect the problem is
>>> something else, like using a bad vo driver or software scaling.. Even
>>> my celeron 366 laptop can play any movie I throw at it, without
>>> -framedrop at all.
>>
>> A 600Mhz G3 (PPC750CXe), ie no Altivec.
>
> So much for "ppc is faster than x86 at same clock..." ;) Still, this
> should be fast enough. What vo are you using? You should try to get
> vidix working...others will be quite slow, with xv being your best
> alternative. x11 or any rgb-based (or non-overlay-based) vo is
> unusable.

PPC750 is somewhat like a PIII without MMX, only with a fraction of the 
power consumption. My laptop doesn't have a fan. (Actually, I think it 
has. But I've never heard it).

Using Mplayer is usually OK, but I tend to prefer using Quicktime. QT 
has better rate control and syncs better with audio.
QT needs plugins for everything tho, and has a quite broken AVI 
demuxer. One needs to install DivX just to use their AVI demuxer.

There is now a nice vo for mplayer called quartz, which is not really 
using Quartz (display PDF vector compositor) but Quicktime.
AFAIK noone has ported vidix to Mac. X11 on Mac is dog slow.

   /Roine