On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Joel CARNAT wrote:
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Joel CARNAT wrote:If the aim is to get a portable DVD/Multimedia box running NetBSD, what are the performance (using NetBSD) when running things like (full-screen) freevo/xine/mplayer/.. playing DVD-quality or Xvid encoded videos.I've run vlc full screen receiving a streamed movie on one.In this case, this is the stream server that does all the work, isn't it ?
Not necessarily, it converts to an MPEG TS stream.
This does not "proove" local MPEG4 decoding ability, does it ?
Yes, as the input stream is MPEG.
I have an (old) Dell C610 (P3 700MHz/1GHz, ATI Radeon M6, 4.0_BETA) on which I tried watching a home-made Kid video (MPEG4 from DV cam) and it was damm slow.
Well, you don't get anything for free - remember that the standard EeePC is underclocked at 600MHz (not the 900MHz headline figure), so you get performance in the order expected for a 600MHz machine.
-- Stephen