| Re: Slightly OT- Attention! Anime fans who use Linux [message #353900 is a reply to message #353761] |
Fri, 06 October 2017 11:41   |
Nick Roberts
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In message <oquvta$pul$1@dont-email.me>
Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> On 10/02/2017 04:53 PM, E. Liddell wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:11:33 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
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>>> My tablet though was too slow to decode even the lowest resolution .mkv
>>> file in a pleasing manner.
>>
>> Really? Must be a really low-end processor. I've got a
>> ~10-year-old laptop that handles 720p well enough most of
>> the time. That's in mplayer, though, which has less overhead.
>>
>> E. Liddell
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> I think Android is the problem but the tablet is one
> built to the obstructive law that forbade OS replacement in
> tablets but not cell phones. Otherwise Debian or Ubuntu
> would be on it.
> It is a Asus Transformer Pad 700 and I could have
> bought a lot of anime and or manga for what I paid for it a
> few years ago. But there is no way to test what sort of
> performance you will see until you try our a specific
> tool/OS/hardware in a field where there is lot of hiding
> of various factors. The next time I spend that money
> for an even better notebook faster cpus and with more
> memory especially dedicated graphics memory.
> Some of the current tablets are much better in
> cpu speed, operating bandwidth specification and in
> price and they might do the trick. Some phone/tablets
> can handle games and anime I know but maybe it is a
> less encoded sort of format that the system can
> un-spool faster.
I have 2 Android pads - A Nexus 7 and a Pixel C. I use VLC on both and
neither has any difficulty with mkv files.
That said - it depends very much on how many "a few" years is. Not so
very long ago, a multi-core ARM chip was a rarity, and a single-core
ARM would need a lot of help from the graphics chip to do the decoding
on a complex video format in a timely manner.
--
Nick Roberts tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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