Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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Serge is offline Serge
2006-08-08 , 05:55
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#93
Originally Posted by Nickster
Currently your wiki is marked as read-only - let me in!
Hmm, did not know that. I don't see any settings for enabling access to it. Maybe garage account is needed to be able to edit wiki pages? Or maybe even project membership, don't know.

On the benchmarking, I realised that my results are pretty worthless. I don't think I understand what's going on, nor what to do to get meaningful results. The results I reported earlier in this thread are just numbers that don't mean what I thought they meant - 60s clips that take 60.5s to process doesn't mean that they play smoothly - in fact in this case playback was VERY jumpy.
If you use -benchmark and -nosound options, video will be played at maximum speed possible, so if you get 30 seconds for a 60 seconds video clip, that means mplayer takes 50% of resources for decoding and displaying video. If you add -vo null option, the video is only decoded without even being displayed (minus color conversion and flushing image to screen). So we can get insights about what parts of program take the most time.

I'm a programmer, and a couple of my skills are UNIX, Perl and Python scripting, so I'm willing to do any leg-work you can direct my way - just let me know what commands to run, and I'll run them on videos of varying size, FPS, ABR and VBR.
If you (or somebody else) could have a look and try making .deb package for mplayer, that would be great