mplayer vs. xine

[Colin Charles]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 23:59, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:
> > xine uses less CPU on my Epia-M.
> 
> I would also note, that mplayer is a pain to use on non-x86 
> architectures. It is so optimized to run well on x86, that every 
> other arch will have performance problems. For example, on my G4 
> Powerbook (500Mhz) I cannot play any movies using mplayer without it 
> dropping frames left and right. Totem/Xine, on the other hand, work 
> very smoothly.

mplayer on my G3 iBook 800MHz runs just fine. Though I tend to use it as
follows:
	mplayer -vo xv 

I found the if I didn't use xv, I'd have issues on occassion.

That said, Totem or Xine work smoothly on the PPC platform for me, as
well.
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