On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 23:02 +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote: > With VDPAU -benchmark numbers are rather misleading. > Try normal playback and give these numbers from the status line: > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:52:44PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > V: 208.5 0/ 0 14% 33% 0.0% 0 0 > ^^^^^^^ > (the first two % numbers). I think the overall benchmark runtime (decoding 208 seconds of video in 103 realtime seconds) tells more reliable information than the status line numbers. The status line numbers don't really tell anything more about overall time usage. They could be used to get more localized information about particularly hard to decode parts, but getting that information out of them is a bit tricky - at least you'd need to reset them by seeking. They don't tell anything more about small-scale frame-to-frame variation. The status line values can be either too optimistic (call times measurable by MPlayer are very short, even though actual hardware decoding in the background takes longer) or pessimistic (delays waiting for page flips for example - heavier to decode video wouldn't necessarily take more overall time, it'd only shift from waiting to actual work).
