Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

[du yang]

On Wednesday 03/30/11 17:14:00 CST, John Campbell wrote:
> On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day
> > or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter?
>
> It's in the multimedia overlay.
>
> The "threads=#" (where # less than total threads available on processor)
> parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file.  I've only got 4
> processors so I set it to threads=4.  You have an i7, so it should
> handle more.
>

I just tried it also. 
Some 720p videos were very slow to play with mplayer on my machine prviously, but
now they are playing smoothly ;-)
So mplayer2 show have some performance improvement.

After switching to maplyer2, putting mplayer to package.provided seems to be able to avoid dependencies problem for smplayer and mplayer-plugin..


- du yang
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