Re: Xvid performance woes

mitch075fr wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> Getting fed up with how slow Xvid encoding was on my Mandriva 2008.1 
> 64-bit, I started tinkering with packages: first latest CVS extract, 
> then with the latest "stable" package - which is also the source for 
> PLF's Xvid package.
> 
> I discovered one snag: it seems the PLF package was compiled without 
> assembly support (meaning yasm wasn't installed on the packager's 
> machine). Doing so, then merely replacing /usr/lib64/libxvidcore.so.4.1 
> with my brand new one yielded immediate results: the very same video 
> stream encoded almost 3 times faster! From almost 3 minutes for a 
> thousand (moving) images, to slightly more than one minute on the next 
> try! The build based on the latest tarball was slower than the one based 
> on official 1.1.3, but still much faster (at least 2x) than PLF's.
> 
> I should mention too that the resulting file was slightly smaller, too.
> 
> I don't know how to make a package, however if anybody is kind enough to 
> explain it to me, get ready for an encoding boost...

I fixed the problem for cooker and 2008.1 in xvid-1.1.3-2plf.

Thanks for the report :)

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Anssi Hannula