[linux-dvb] Re: Problem with SKY2PC 2.3 on slower machine

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Petar Ristic wrote:
> Thanks Niklas,
>
> this was a problem. Now working, not ok becouse my machine is too slow, but
> working.
> Is there any faster MPEG2 decoder than mplayer? Or it's time to upgrade
> machine?
The performance of mplayer, xine + co heavily depend on a properly 
configured system. Be sure to have your graphics driver correctly 
installed and configured, use Xv, DirectFB, SDL or OpenGL as output 
paths, check whether Alsa or OSS causes less CPU load on your hardware.

Usually you need far less CPU power to decode MPEG than most people 
expect - but you need to ensure that the dumb tasks like YUV colorspace 
conversion, scaling and blitting are done by your graphics card and not 
the CPU - the graphics card is the part of your system which is 
optimized for this work...

Holger



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