> I have an Athlon 64 4200+ X2 playing a "planet earth" episode<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> timestretched at 2x as I'm typing this. I'm running Ubuntu edgy 64. I
<br>> built an smp kernel myself, but there's nothing special about it.<br>> I've got myth deinterlacing and resizing the stream to 720p which is<br>> native for my TV. I can actually watch HD timestretched while
<br>> comflagging a couple of other shows simultaneously with no skipping<br>> or choppiness of any kind. This is w/o the use of XvMC also. I would<br>> think your box could do the same, if not better. -J<br>>
<br><br>So what CPU usage do you get at normal playback? What about at 1.25 and<br>1.5 and 1.75? Mine goes well over 100% of one core before 1.5x (usually<br>around 1.35 or so), and since the decoding is not multithreaded, causes
<br>prebuffering pauses.<br><br></blockquote></div>Sorry, I've been swamped lately and havn't had the chance to look yet. I've never actually bothered to look. All I know is that I have never had any stuttering, pausing, or any other performance based glitches at any speed, despite whatever else the box is doing in the background. If I get a chance, I'll do some quick benchmarks and mail the results to you.
<br><br>I know it's been mentioned before, but this is a situation where it would really be cool to have a standard, myth-centric script that can gather hardware/software specs, and play back a reference clip in various manners and record benchmarks that a person can post to their wiki user page for easy comparison. Maybe I can throw something together to get the idea started. It wouldnt be hard just to cat some config info and hardware specs into a text file at the very least.
<br>-J<br>