Re: Video Overlay on C3200

Graeme Gregory <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:02:27PM +0000, Tim Chick wrote:
> One thing I noticed is that mplayer by default was being compiled for arm  v3 
> instruction set. This meant that ldrh and strh were missing, and all the 
> pipeline optimisation done by the compiler was messed up. Compiling for 
> xscale drops cpu usage of video decode by about 20%! I guess this is why 
> there are armv5te packages on the feed browser, but it's not exactly clear 
> that those are the ones which should be used. In fact, why do the arm-v3 ones 
> even exist? arm v4 (strongarm) would be a better minimum? But why is there a 
> minimum when allpackages are built for an xscale?
> 
By default it should be built for armv4, and I have built for armv5 and
iwmmxt and seen very little difference in performance from armv4.

Graeme


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