Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:54:53 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_Bergstr=F6m?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: well, i guess it's time to ask..... Message-ID: <20100819185453.GA90635@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4C6C8833.50108@pathscale.com> References: <20100819011024.GA10288@thought.org> <4C6C8833.50108@pathscale.com>
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:26:11AM +0700, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >ok guys, > >i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful > >computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait > >until fall to ask, but it's close enough. > > > >can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. > > > (Disclaimer I work for a commercial compiler company) > > If you experience problems with performance of Atom I would generally > not blame the processor. There are *zero* very well tuned compilers for > Atom that I'm aware of. Most are content that the compiler works good > enough(tm) and it's difficult (impossible) to get the low level timing > data details out of Intel. Unless you're hand writing inline asm > (*cough* ffmpeg) then it's certainly possible the code isn't optimized > well enough. Depending on what else the processor is busy with, codec > type and video size it should certainly possible to stream an "average" > sized movie with no problem. Now can it handle Blu-ray I doubt it... i am not planning on watching a movie that is on a DVD-RW but via [say] kmplayer via video stream. and rather than the std 'movie-length' of 120 minutes, an hour or less streamed by PBS. with my 2.4ghz Dell loaded at its usual 0.25 - 0.4, and using kmplayer or vlc, the video is jerky or hangs for several seconds. i probably should get-real and use whatever notebook i buy for what i originally intended it for: as a small and usable computer than can produce understandable speech. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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