Hi there, Sorry for jumping in late here.
On Sep 14 2009, José JORGE wrote: > A Monday 14 September 2009 19:00:08, drz escreveu: > > In that package is the Firmware for R3xx ATI cards. Maaaybe this > > will speed things up a little, but I dont think it will be enough > > for 720p. > > A simple way to check if the CPU can decode the 720p, even with an > ideal GPU : Gee, I wish that I had both a fast GPU & CPU like you guys have (I only have a G3 and Rage 128 here). > mplayer -vo null movie720.avi Indeed. Using $ mplayer -nosound -vo null -benchmark foo.avi is also a good idea to see how the machine works (if it is not CPU bound), especially after doing something like: $ dd if=foo.avi of=/dev/null to get the file in the cache. Depending on the format of the video (say, a H.264 video), it takes quite a good amount of CPU to decode the video. Converting it to a simpler format (say, MPEG-4 Part 2) might be a good workaround. To check the memory bandwidth of your machine, one simple-minded tool that I used in the past is mbw (try: apt-cache show mbw). And I can report that I got some low-resolution H.264 videos to be playable on my 600MHz G3 iBook with mplayer and the options: -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts fast This proved to be useful to play even Steve Job's video from this month. For a source of some short 720p videos, you can try some available on youtube or on Apple's quicktime section of the site. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org