Slow/stuttering playback on "decent" system

[Kurz]

Originally Posted by Miles Teg

New computer at home so some new test

The computer is composed of :
ASUSTeK Pundit P4-P5N9300 (NVIDIA GeForce 9300).
Pentium Dual Core E5300 (2.6Ghz).
2Gb of RAM (256Mb for the video card)

First the chipset support VDPAU I have tried some 720p files and no problems.
Second the processor is decoding H264 as fast as my C2D E6750 (2.67Ghz) looks like the L2 cache and the FSB don't play a big role for decoding video.

All the test done on an Ubuntu 9.10 (x86-64).

FSB is not really important.
It comes down to CPU speed mostly.
Though Cache does help... Try playing 1080p I bet you may experience slow downs.
I wish you went with something with more cache like a Core2duo or a AMD Turion II.

[Miles Teg]

Originally Posted by Kurz

FSB is not really important.
It comes down to CPU speed mostly.
Though Cache does help... Try playing 1080p I bet you may experience slow downs.
I wish you went with something with more cache like a Core2duo or a AMD Turion II.

That's my secondary computer and I nearly never use it, it's for the family. My primary one use a C2D E6750

The Pentium Dual Core has more problem with 1080P than the C2D but using ffmpeg-mt make them able to play 1080p without the use of VDPAU.