On 03/30/2011 08:47 PM, du yang wrote:
On Wednesday 03/30/11 17:14:00 CST, John Campbell wrote:
On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day
or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter?
It's in the multimedia overlay.
The "threads=#" (where # less than total threads available on processor)
parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4
processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should
handle more.
I just tried it also.
Some 720p videos were very slow to play with mplayer on my machine prviously,
but
now they are playing smoothly ;-)
So mplayer2 show have some performance improvement.
After switching to maplyer2, putting mplayer to package.provided seems to be
able to avoid dependencies problem for smplayer and mplayer-plugin..
The version in portage removed multithreading support :-( The
maintainer doesn't want the bundled, multithreaded ffmpeg that comes
with mplayer2. That's a good thing in the long run, but I've no idea
why they rushed it. They could wait till the in-portage libav or ffmpeg
becomes multithreaded before they strip the bundled one.
