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Experimental Mplayer build from SVN (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 12.09.2010, 03:14

> Maybe. Core MPlayer developers are very probably focused on security and
> vulnerability resulting to various underlows/underflows and potentialy
> dangerous code.
> (Useless in DOS, but can be important in Linux and Windows.)
> So there is more various checks in player routines which slow down the decoding

> (sub)versions are also much slower than older ones, e.g. the latest Sherpya
> builds are slow with my 2.6GHz Pentium IV, older ones used to be fast enough.

WtF ??? A few security/limit checks causing a massive slowdown? BTW, newer versions brew less Page Faults, but if it's true that they are that much slower ... (another ToTest item ....)

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