[vdr] Re: Hardware Question

[Andreas Lange <andreas.lange@chemie.uni-regensburg.de>]

Dariush Forouher wrote:

>Am Son, 2002-06-09 um 14.57 schrieb Markus Kalb:
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>>b) divx 
>>	i heared that 1GHz it should be, but as 800MHz are a lot 
>>	cheaper i was wondering if someone of you is running 
>>	divX on such a CPU ? 
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>I've tried it on a Dual P3-500Mhz (should have similar power) and the
>av-sync was extremely bad. This was about one month ago and I don't
>think that mplayer has improved his performance since then. For more
>information have a look at the mplayer-dvb mailing list at
>www.mplayerhq.hu
>
>ciao
>Dariush
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>
Hi,
afaik mplayer only uses a single thread and therefore cannot use your
second cpu. So you only get the processing power of one 500 MHz cpu.

Regards,
Andreas Lange