From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 24 6:18:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA10837B404 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:18:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04155 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:18:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09607 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:18:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G7O7QL00.MBG; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:18:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6EE439.69B5256A@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:18:33 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter B Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mpeg4 under FreeBSD p2 References: <200101240639.HAA06841@sister.ludd.luth.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter B wrote: > > 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? Well on my PII-400 with a Matrox G200 on XFree 4.0.2, I can get avifile (from the ports, I don't get the crashing problem you apparently have) to play Mpeg4 files fullscreen flawlessly, although it takes a good chunck of CPU time. The player will start to skip if I run a disk and cpu intensive task in the background (pan decoding large files for instance). Also, some of the non-Mpeg4 codecs in avifile don't seem to play right, however all of those codecs are supported by xanim now. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message