[linux-dvb] Re: Speed of DVB audio decoding

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Radovan Garabik wrote:
> This is just a description of what I found out, maybe to help
> others with similar problems...
> My setup is PII 266 MHZ with Skystar2 (2.6B), which is about as
> slow as you can get (but at least it has a good video card :-))
>
> Watching TV under Windows is aceptable, channels with better resolutions
> (such as Canale 5, Italia 1, german channels on Hotbird) are jerky,
> but watchable (but switching channels takes forever).
>
> First I tried to use mplayer, while low resolution channels were OK,
> high resolutions were unwatchable. While experimenting with different
> video and audio codecs, I accidentally found out that leaving sound out
> makes the picture quite smooth. So I took a piece of audio and tried 
> various mp2 players:
> mplayer (with no video) eats about 15% CPU
I'm just curious, which audio codec in mplayer have you been using? Can 
please you try the different audio codecs and report the results?

Holger



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