[vlc] Re: New Streaming Problem

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Danislav Kostov wrote:

> Hi! 1st: very very very nice software... and the mailings help a lot.
> 
> Benjamin wrote:
> There is absolutely no  way to transcode to MPEG4 using a  VIA C3. It is
> very  far  to  be  powerful  enough.  Our  tests  show  that  real  time
> fullescreen MPEG4 transcoding would at least require a PIV 1.6 GHz.
> 
> For the VIA is true, but PIV 1.GHz is not the minimum.
> I'v tested real time MPEG4 (720*576) trans with Athlon 1700+, 256 MB,

An athlon 1700+ is a pretty fast cpu relative to a 1.6ghz p4 so I would 
consider the impinging on the minimum... The point being, a reasonably 
powerful modern cpu is required. The via cpu's have only recently gotten a 
full speed fpu and even then their cyrix heratige really shows in this 
regard. you don't by any means need a 3ghz p4 or a 2ghz opteron to 
transcode mpeg4 but it sure helps.

> Ati7000... and it's OK. No missed frames or other problems,....so:
> GUYS, test it yourself, like the english says "suck-and-see" :-)))
> 
> Best wishes,
> Dani, Sofia, Bulgaria.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of
> Benjamin PRACHT
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:45 PM
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc] Re: New Streaming Problem
> 
> There is absolutely no  way to transcode to MPEG4 using a  VIA C3. It is
> very  far  to  be  powerful  enough.  Our  tests  show  that  real  time
> fullescreen MPEG4 transcoding would at least require a PIV 1.6 GHz.
> 
> Using a hardware MPEG4 encoding card could be an alternative.
> 
> 

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