<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Loren Merritt</b> <<a href="mailto:lorenm@u.washington.edu">lorenm@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Jelle wrote:<br>> Loren Merritt wrote:<br>>><br>>> No, I don't know whether my videocard supports xvmc, but I certainly<br>>> haven't enabled it in ffmpeg. This is cpu-time as measured by
<br>>> `time mplayer -benchmark -vo null -nosound -vc ffmpeg2`.<br>><br>> Ok, I'll run that too then.<br>><br>> Two different machines. I know for sure that neither machines have videocards<br>> that support Xvmc.
<br>><br>> Athlon64 3200+ (2GHz/512kb cache)<br>> MPEG2 video 480x576@25fps, 2.5Mbit/s (much less than DVD), 4688 seconds long.<br>> 100 * 12*60+20/4688 =~ 16% CPU.<br>><br>> P4/3GHz/1M cache<br>> MPEG2 video
<a href="mailto:720x480@29.97fps">720x480@29.97fps</a>, 4.5Mbit/s, 1886 seconds long<br>> 100 * 4*60+12/1886 =~ 13% CPU.<br>><br>> I don't know where you got 2%, but I can't reproduce anything even close to<br>> it.
<br>><br>> 2% of a 2.2GHz CPU, or 44MHz, for DVD video? How can I get that?<br><br>Ok, so it wasn't quite 2%.<br><br><br><br>100% * 244.856 / 3750 = 6.5% CPU<br><br></blockquote></div><br>I guess that my real question was, do you think the Cell is the cpu beast that IBM/Sony/Toshiba claims it to be? If so a PS3 with Linux and an optimized x264 code to take care of the SPE's in the Cell might be a very cheap encoder.
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