[Theora-dev] FPGA implementation/ players speed?

[Maik Merten]

Ivan Popov wrote:
> If we assume decoding complexity is proportional to the area,
> your movie is about 9.3 times more resource-intensive =>
> an about 7 GHz processor would be probably adequate.
> 
> A test, on a 730 MHz Celeron I can decode your clip with
> 4 fps, so to come to 30 fps I'd need about 5.5 GHz.

My AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (2 GHz) manages to play this video at a very
acceptable framerate. I assume there are framedrops (100% CPU load) but
the image is quite "fluid" (something like 20 fps, wild guess).

There is a libtheora-mmx branch in svn which may have even better
decoding speed. I use the normal libvorbis-alpha4 (I don´t know if it
has any SIMD code).


Maik