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Ive done some preliminary test results for the ASRock ION With and Without VDPAU using mplayer I havent installed mythtv-vdpau yet
The test results are unbelievable and can be seen below
I am going to get a second one tommorow
GB£180+vat for a complete system with dvd writer 2 gb ram 320gb hdd they are value and make a great front end.
I am going to move my current front/backend from the living room to the boiler room and decluter the living room
Video file info
File A
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x720 25.00fps [Video]
Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo 1536Kbps [Audio]
1.3GB / Hour
File B
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 832x468 25.00fps [Video]
Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo 1536Kbps [Audio]
650MB/Hour
File C
Video: DIVX 480x360 29.97fps [Stream 00]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 128Kbps [Stream 01]
550MB/hour
File D
Video: XVID 624x352 23.98fps [Stream 00]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 123Kbps [Stream 01]
540MB/Min
Code:
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All tests were carried out at 1388x768x24bit
Idle just at the command prompt
sar -u 2 5
Linux 2.6.28-LinHES (ASRockIONMainBed) 08/12/09 _i686_ (4 CPU)
00:31:49 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
00:31:51 all 0.13 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.00 99.37
00:31:53 all 0.00 0.00 0.37 0.00 0.00 99.63
00:31:55 all 0.12 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.00 99.75
00:31:57 all 0.12 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.00 99.75
00:31:59 all 0.12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.88
Average: all 0.10 0.00 0.12 0.10 0.00 99.68
Displaying video file A using default R6.08 mplayer settings
> sar -u 2 5
Linux 2.6.28-LinHES (ASRockIONMainBed) 08/12/09 _i686_ (4 CPU)
00:33:00 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
00:33:02 all 19.10 0.00 2.45 0.00 0.00 78.45
00:33:04 all 21.16 0.00 1.64 0.00 0.00 77.20
00:33:06 all 25.19 0.00 1.39 0.00 0.00 73.43
00:33:08 all 25.93 0.00 0.37 0.00 0.00 73.70
00:33:10 all 26.43 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.00 73.45
Average: all 23.60 0.00 1.18 0.00 0.00 75.22
Displaying video file A using
mplayer--resumer.pl -fs -zoom -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau, %s
> sar -u 2 5
Linux 2.6.28-LinHES (ASRockIONMainBed) 08/12/09 _i686_ (4 CPU)
00:45:46 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
00:45:48 all 1.43 0.00 0.78 0.00 0.00 97.80
00:45:50 all 1.50 0.00 0.75 0.00 0.00 97.75
00:45:52 all 2.00 0.00 0.12 0.62 0.00 97.25
00:45:54 all 2.12 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.00 97.75
00:45:56 all 2.12 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.00 97.76
Average: all 1.84 0.00 0.38 0.13 0.00 97.66
Displaying video file B using
mplayer--resumer.pl -fs -zoom -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau, %s
> sar -u 2 5
Linux 2.6.28-LinHES (ASRockIONMainBed) 08/12/09 _i686_ (4 CPU)
00:47:28 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
00:47:30 all 0.00 0.00 2.28 0.00 0.00 97.72
00:47:32 all 0.61 0.00 2.33 0.61 0.00 96.44
00:47:34 all 0.38 0.00 2.38 0.00 0.00 97.25
00:47:36 all 0.13 0.00 2.13 0.00 0.00 97.75
00:47:38 all 0.25 0.00 2.36 0.00 0.00 97.39
Average: all 0.27 0.00 2.30 0.12 0.00 97.30
Displaying live TV (DVB-t) broadcast using std mythtv
> sar -u 2 5
Linux 2.6.28-LinHES (ASRockIONMainBed) 08/12/09 _i686_ (4 CPU)
00:48:30 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
00:48:32 all 19.38 0.00 4.44 0.00 0.00 76.17
00:48:34 all 21.02 0.00 4.50 0.00 0.00 74.48
00:48:36 all 20.44 0.00 4.50 1.09 0.00 73.97
00:48:38 all 20.63 0.00 4.70 0.00 0.00 74.67
00:48:40 all 21.05 0.00 4.50 0.00 0.00 74.45
Average: all 20.51 0.00 4.53 0.22 0.00 74.74
Displaying video file C using
mplayer--resumer.pl -fs -zoom -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau, %s
> sar -u 2 5
Linux 2.6.28-LinHES (ASRockIONMainBed) 08/12/09 _i686_ (4 CPU)
00:50:05 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
00:50:07 all 1.15 0.00 2.17 0.00 0.00 96.68
00:50:09 all 0.98 0.00 1.95 0.00 0.00 97.07
00:50:11 all 1.34 0.00 3.28 0.00 0.00 95.38
00:50:13 all 1.52 0.00 2.46 0.00 0.00 96.02
00:50:15 all 2.54 0.00 1.02 2.92 0.00 93.53
Average: all 1.50 0.00 2.19 0.57 0.00 95.75
Displaying video file D using
mplayer--resumer.pl -fs -zoom -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau, %s
> sar -u 2 5
Linux 2.6.28-LinHES (ASRockIONMainBed) 08/12/09 _i686_ (4 CPU)
00:50:55 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
00:50:57 all 2.94 0.00 1.41 0.00 0.00 95.65
00:50:59 all 3.24 0.00 1.37 0.00 0.00 95.39
00:51:01 all 3.81 0.00 2.46 2.83 0.00 90.90
00:51:03 all 3.35 0.00 1.86 0.00 0.00 94.80
00:51:05 all 2.85 0.00 1.24 0.00 0.00 95.92
Average: all 3.24 0.00 1.67 0.57 0.00 94.52