On Thursday, 19 February 2009 at 09:56, Rohit Garg wrote: > Hi all, > > I have 2 questions and a request. All are for x86-64 systems. > > 1) is the mplayer package compiled to use sse/sse2/mmx optimized > codepaths by default?
Yes. > 2) can the mplayer package make use of multiple cores? Yes, within the limitations of the code. > I ask because my system seems too slow while playing 720p h.264 > videos. :( It's a dual core athlon 1.6G laptop cpu with 2.5g ram. Please post mplayer -v yourfile output. I used to have a 1.8GHz single core Sempron64 and it could play 720p H.264 while running at 1GHz. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations"
