Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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2007-05-12 , 17:01
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Originally Posted by f97mp View Post
Is there any possibility for MPlayer@N800 ever playing h264 video in a descent way? I understand h264 is rather demanding, but do you guys think it will be possible on the lovely N800?
Don't know if it will improve performance to the decent level, but h264 decoding can be optimized quite well using ARMv6 SIMD instructions. Right now h264 decoding does not have any ARM assembly optimizations in MPlayer/FFmpeg at all. All of this will require quite a bit of work and time though, it is easier said than done.

My intention was to watch video-podcasts, e.g. this one http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/ande...ast/index.html.
This podcast also has audio encoded in AAC, and AAC is not very well supported in MPlayer on ARM (performance wise) right now. Making use of AAC DSP codec from N800 also requires quite a lot of work. You may search this forum for some more details.