From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jan 23 22:39:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mother.ludd.luth.se (mother.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B75137B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:39:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sister.ludd.luth.se (sister.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.77]) by mother.ludd.luth.se (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA04661 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:39:00 +0100 (MET) From: Peter B Received: (pb@localhost) by sister.ludd.luth.se (8.6.11/8.6.11) id HAA06841 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:39:20 +0100 Message-Id: <200101240639.HAA06841@sister.ludd.luth.se> Subject: Mpeg4 under FreeBSD p2 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:39:20 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have tried some mpeg4/divx playing on a P-III/800 MHz, 128 MB ram, NVidia Geforce2. FreeBSD 4.2 + XFree v4.0.2, And here are some results: It turns out that 'top' idle is not going below 45% at any single instance. Thus P-III 440 MHz should be enough? Resizing the movie screen does not affect the cpu load any significantly. Switching to 32 bpp, and renice'ing the avifile process seems to help avoiding involuntary "pauses". FreeBSD avifile can be found at (which I got mailed to me): http://www.ludd.luth.se/~pb/avifile-0.53.1_2.tgz The freebsd version has a tendency to "segmentation fault" to often. So I tried the linux player. And that seems to work more reliable. Anyone knows how much influence the graphics card acceleration has on the cpu load? /Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message