[Ffmpeg-devel] H.264 Mini Press Release

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:51:03PM -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
>> 	I put a shameless little self-promotion news piece of FFmpeg's 
>> frontpage. Check it out.
>
> I don't wish to rain on anyone's parade, but our support for those
> videos is currently severely limited due to performance reasons.
>
> OK, my 500MHz K6-III is probably never going to play such a high
> resolution video (video decoding takes 400% CPU), but audio decoding
> alone takes about 50% CPU time on that machine.  Even my 1.5GHz G4
> cannot play it fluidly, it's more like a slideshow :-(  QT7 works fine
> on that same machine.  Which leads to the question what kind of machine
> you need to enjoy this content and how the proprietary players compare.

The Apple page says you need a G5 to play it, and that's a pretty fast
machine.

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