Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2008-07-26 Thread Olivier Arsac
Thank you Jason for these very useful advices. Here are my new results. BTW: I've also upgraded the intel xf86 driver to 2.4.0 as the changelog stated numerous speed improvements (and xvmc support... not that useful for this test but always nice to have) Still having frame drops... (less but

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2008-07-26 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:18 +0200, Olivier Arsac wrote: I'm wondering why I get these drops... I was under the impression than other people were having better results with slower CPUs... (or were they not outputting to a FullHD display?) My E6600 (2.4Ghz) can handle cornel_m1080p.mov without

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2008-07-25 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi Olivier, On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:14 +0200, olivier arsac wrote: I have a problem though... I'm unable to get a run without dropping frames even on a 3.2GHz core 2 duo (penryn e8200 OC) If I disable sound output the test run smoothly... something fishy here. If you disable sound, MPlayer

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2008-07-22 Thread olivier arsac
Here are my benchmarcks for the cornell file played on a fullHD TV. (ref: http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg14734.html) I have a problem though... I'm unable to get a run without dropping frames even on a 3.2GHz core 2 duo (penryn e8200 OC) If I disable sound

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 2007-07-18 22:38, Patrick Carey wrote: model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Ah finally, someone with an AMD. Thanks. :) avg time 1min 32.3sec video card: nvidia 7300GS PCI-E with nvidia drivers 9755 it did tell me my system was too slow to play the file and

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel Sanchez
Hi, Sorry for my BAD English. Yes, I'm have appletv for test other things, but I'm install freevo on gentoo in AppleTV for test and buy to my house. All hardware components works but remote not working with lirc (Not enough tested). I'm not tested TDT or other things in USB, but I'm test it next

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-18 Thread Patrick Carey
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ uname -r: 2.6.21-ARCH motherboard: shuttle SN21G5 mplayer 1.0RC1 avg time 1min 32.3sec video card: nvidia 7300GS PCI-E with nvidia drivers 9755 it did tell me my system was too slow to play the file and dropped 642 frames but to my

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-16 Thread Daniel Sanchez
1. Output of /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Genuine Intel(R) processor 1.00GHz stepping: 8 cpu MHz : 1000.119 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug :

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-16 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Hi Daniel, On 2007-07-16 03:51, Daniel Sanchez wrote: 5. The average time of the three -benchmark runs. real2m32.087s user2m29.380s sys 0m0.330s [...] 6. Whether or not you experienced frame dropping or mplayer No dropped frames. You won't see dropped frames on the

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-16 Thread John Molohan
snip 3. The motherboard you're using AppleTV snip Are you running freevo on linux on an AppleTV? If so would you give a quick description of your experiences? John - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-15 Thread Josh Vickery
Here are my results: model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz uname -r : 2.6.20-1-686 mobo : ASUS P5LD2-VM 2.0 GREEN 945G 775 average benchmark realtime: 79.5 seconds framedrop: 388 frames dropped, and mplayer did complain once that my system is too slow -- however, this was

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-15 Thread Josh Vickery
I upgraded to Xorg 1.3 and xorg-video-intel version 2.0 and video performance got much worse. Framedrop increased to 561 for the clip, but more importantly the clip hung repeatedly during playback. Also, this time, instead of just mplayer using 100% of the CPU, both mplayer and Xorg used 100% of

Re: [Freevo-users] Help with benchmarking CPUs for HD decoding

2007-07-15 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
1. Output of /proc/cpuinfo I am not using Linux. I am using Mac OS X. Here is the output of a similar command. [ Sun Jul 15 14:03:26 ] hackmiester @ snowy ~ $ system_profiler SPHardwareDataType Hardware: Hardware Overview: Model Name: MacBook Model Identifier: MacBook1,1