Josselin Mouette wrote: > Wrong. There have been several movie players around, which are much less > painful to install and which comply with the DFSG - and they are > included in the main Debian distribution. And even with all its > optimize-everything-or-die crap, mplayer doesn't perform better. Huh, just tried aaxine. Played an MPEG1 with >100% CPU, 5 (!) threads, and 2 (!) fps. (libxine0) And it worked only as root. (why, don't ask me..) xine _couldn't play the audio_ . Checked the output and saw xine opened my BT878 card to play audio on it :))) /dev/dsp2. Just 'rmmod btaudio' wasn't enough, I had to move the kernel module from its place! (xine probes all /dev/dsp*, and uses the last, VERY SMART, clap-clap) Then xine could finally play the audio ;) And surprise: it was STILL JERKY! On an AMD K6/2 250, a simple MPEG1 playing was impossible. Very nice indeed. Then tried MPlayer -vo aa as user, and it played 25fps, 98% CPU, 1 thread, __immediately__. I just typed: mplayer -vo aa filename.mpg and it worked.. Mysterious :P You can ssh in to me and see for yourself :) I also tried to play a _one-frame_ VOB with AC3 audio (the xine team - unlike us - concentrated very much work on these so called still-frames' support, so I expected it to work): it displayed the frame, and tried to play the audio - unfortunately the audio was totally skipping.. :) Meanwhile my CPU usage was 100% : 9922 aaxine 41.7 48.2 14m root 0:05.41 25 0 R 9916 aaxine 31.5 48.2 14m root 0:05.69 25 0 R 9923 aaxine 20.4 48.2 14m root 0:03.21 16 0 R Now this is what I call "perform better" :))))))))) 100% CPU for a jerky AC3 playback which should take about 20% CPU anyway. (why am I using aalib? Because right now I am in front of an EGA monitor. With MPlayer I can watch TV, DivX, anything on it, even with svgalib! xine doesn't even know of svgalib, how strange...) I expected xine to be much better (!) than this. -- Gabucino MPlayer Core Team
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