SGI Octane and MPEG4-ASP video playback

Specs: Single 300MHz R12000 CPU with 1GB of RAM, SE graphics with 1 TRAM, IRIX 6.5.22f
Without the TRAM, the CPU usage jumps to 100% and stays there. 640x480 XViD videos skip frames, but 500x400 videos are barely playable. With a single TRAM, the video card can now handle the output, thus lessening the load. Although it can play 640x480 just fine, it still drops frames in complex scenes.

Yes, I need a table and a chair.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• sgi
• octane
• irix
• unix
• mplayer
• xvid
• divx
• computer

[randomshinichi]

The only one that really worked (fullscreen) was vo sgi. There was also one suboption under SGI for TRAM enabled MGRAS graphics, but each time I tried that, the X server crashed so I stuck with the software colorspace conversion+texture mapping. I think VPro graphics does color conversion in hardware, so it might use a lot less CPU. Can you find out?

[raid0422]

come on, silicon valley, bring back the exotic computers! intel is boring!!

[Masterpj555]

I like ur background :)

[eMGeeGFX]

@raid0422, I'm putting my money on IA-64 at the moment, in terms of modern non-x86. SGI supports it also and there were ex-SGI people involved (along with and at HP and Intel) with the actual development of the whole architecture itself.

[eMGeeGFX]

Changing the output and rendering mode in MPlayer can actually make a huge difference.