Re: [xine-user] Playback of AVI with xine and dxr3

[Roger K. <ro...@so...>]

Hi Michiel,

A 333Mhz Celeron wouldn't be enough to decode divx ;-) streams ?
That's not my experience. I'm happily playing various avi streams (divx4, 
divx5, xvid etc) on my P-II 400Mhz. no problems at all. only if I try to 
decode a very high resolution stream (>>720 x 536?) the system isn't fast 
enough. I guess a P-II at 450Mhz  would be the minimum configuration to 
view even the larger resolution streams.

I'm using a dual P-II 400Mhz w/ 256 Mb ECC DDR RAM
linux 2.6.0-test7-smp
redhat 9 (prelinked)
AIC7xxx scsi hostcontroller w/ 2 38 Gb IBM LVD-2 harddisks
NVIDIA GeForce4 w/ 64 Mb VRAM (PCI)
xine-lib-1-rc1
xine-ui-0.9.22

Just to inform you.
Roger
ps. Xine Rules ! Many thanks to the developers for this splendid piece of 
software !


On 20 Oct 2003, Michiel Toneman wrote:

> 
> Hi Norbert,
> 
> AVI is just a container format for audio/video streams encoded with
> various codecs. This means that AVI doesn't tell you much about the CPU
> power needed to decode the stream. 
> 
> Most movies on the net are encoded using a variant of DivX ;-) which is
> a MPEG4 variant. This requires a significantly faster processor that
> your 333MHz Celeron to decode (at typical resolutions) and your DRX3
> won't be able to help (it can handle MPEG1 and 2). Probably a 733MHz
> PIII is about the minimum for decoding DivX.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michiel
> 
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:53, Norbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > First of all please excuse me for the most probably foolish
> > questions in my mail. I'm new to the multimedia world and
> > Linux. I have a pretty old PC with a PII-Celeron (333MHz).
> > So far I've had Win98+Mandrake8.2 running on it . I needed
> > the Win to run the DXR3. Recently I installed xine 1.0.0 and
> > the dxr3 driver and both work very well except two minor and
> > one major problem. Let me ask the major one now:
> > I've got some movies burned in the AVI-format. After
> > installing the needed codecs xine can play them, even the
> > TV-output is excellent but the playback is stuttering. It
> > looks as if "somebody" in the chain were not powerful enough
> > to handle this video compression. And here comes my real
> > question, namely what kind of video compression does the AVI
> > have? In case of AVI-playback who is taking care of the
> > video stream? Is it the em8300 DSP or the CPU?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help,
> > /Norbert 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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