On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:34:30PM +0100, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Radovan Garabik wrote: > >This is just a description of what I found out, maybe to help > >others with similar problems... > >My setup is PII 266 MHZ with Skystar2 (2.6B), which is about as > >slow as you can get (but at least it has a good video card :-)) > > > >Watching TV under Windows is aceptable, channels with better resolutions > >(such as Canale 5, Italia 1, german channels on Hotbird) are jerky, > >but watchable (but switching channels takes forever). > > > >First I tried to use mplayer, while low resolution channels were OK, > >high resolutions were unwatchable. While experimenting with different > >video and audio codecs, I accidentally found out that leaving sound out > >makes the picture quite smooth. So I took a piece of audio and tried > >various mp2 players: > >mplayer (with no video) eats about 15% CPU > > I'm just curious, which audio codec in mplayer have you been using? Can > please you try the different audio codecs and report the results?
Sorry, I forgot to mention it. It was -ac mp3. With -ac ffmp2, I got slightly worse results (+about 1% CPU time needed). Mplayer is not compiled with libmad support, so I cannot try -ac mad, but madplay takes about 10% -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
