2009/2/27 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <[email protected]>: > 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. it doesn't count! you were probably using the vdpau output.
Nicolas (kwizart)
