[xine-user] Re: SMP machines

[Sven H. <hei...@id...>]

Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 08:03 schrieben Sie:
> I guess that means Xine's new highly threaded model is a big success for
> SMP. More good news for my upcoming dual Athlon machine. :)

Yes, defenitely yes. Yust before easter, I got a DVD ROM and thus I had 
plenty of time to do some testing. My computer is a dual P2-233 with a MGA 
G200, Xv capable, and a Terratec Xlerate soundcard (Aureal chip), supported
by OSS.
First, I tried Xine 0.3.7. After several "discarded/skipped frames"-Messages, 
I only got some sound but no video - IMHO CPU not powerful enough. Using Xine 
0.4.01 (included some well known dvd-plugin-replacements), everything worked 
- with (almost) no missing pictures. CPU usage is both about 80%, with peaks 
at 100%. Sometimes, but very rarely, one picture is missed. If somebody is 
interested in a CPU usage chart, I can mail a screenshot (~10K, png, first 
minutes of "Air Force One", Regio 2).
However, everything is somewat "tight": typing, or even having the CPU-meter 
running results in missing pictures. Because of this, I did no Xshm tests.
And yes: Xine 0.4.01 is somewhat unstable...

Nevertheless, everything is much better than I exspected. Great. Try to find a
software-dvd for a win-os which performs like this....

Regards, Sven

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