Author: compn Date: Sat Feb 21 02:59:26 2009 New Revision: 3353 Log: video accel news
Modified: trunk/src/news.en Modified: trunk/src/news.en ============================================================================== --- trunk/src/news.en Mon Feb 16 01:09:39 2009 (r3352) +++ trunk/src/news.en Sat Feb 21 02:59:26 2009 (r3353) @@ -8,6 +8,60 @@ <div class="newsentry"> <h2> + <a name=accelerationtips>2009-02-20, Friday :: Video Acceleration and You</a> + <br><span class="poster">posted by Compn</span> +</h2> + +<p> +There are a few ways to speed up playback of 1080 H264 files on your pc. +</p> + +<p> +First is to use the newly added <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU";>VDPAU</a> +output. It allows the newer +<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU#Supported_Cards";>NVidia video cards</a> +to decode the video without using much CPU. It is in SVN MPlayer, you can +find known bugs and report bugs +<a href="http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s&forumid=14";>HERE</a>. +<b>(Linux only)</b> +</p> + +<p> +Second is to use MPlayer with the <b>experimental</b> multithreaded +<a href="http://gitorious.org/projects/ffmpeg/repos/ffmpeg-mt";>FFmpeg-mt</a> +branch, which allows you to use multiple cores/CPU. <b>(all OS and CPU supported)</b> + +A Windows build of MPlayer using FFmpeg-mt can be found at +<a href="http://kovensky.project357.com";>http://kovensky.project357.com</a>. +</p> + +<p> +Third is to use the multithreaded <a href="http://www.coreavc.com/";>CoreAVC</a> +codec with the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for-linux/";>CoreAVC-for-linux</a> +project. The CoreAVC decoder costs $15 USD. <b>(Linux (and Windows with this +<a href="http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/patches/99_coreavc.diff";>PATCH</a>))</b> +</p> + +<p> +<a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org";>FFmpeg</a> has also added some optimizations from the +<a href="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html";>X264</a> project. +To fully utilize these you will need to make sure a recent YASM is installed +and detected by the latest SVN MPlayer when compiling. +</p> + +<p> +There is also a rejected +<a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-January/059868.html";>PATCH</a> +which adds support for the new multithreaded binary VC1/WMV3 codec. +</p> + + +</div> + + +<div class="newsentry"> + +<h2> <a name="picsearch">2008-12-20, Saturday :: Picsearch samples list</a> <br><span class="poster">posted by Compn</span> </h2> _______________________________________________ MPlayer-DOCS mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs
