Ran a benchmark to see how the cpu on a Sam460ex does on 720p video decode. The video is 596 seconds long.

"AmigaOS 4.1:C/mplayer" -benchmark -nosound -ao null -vo null -lavdopts skiploopfilter=none User:Work/Downloads/big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.avi
MPlayer LiveForIt V5.1 - SVN-rSVN-r32634-4.2.4(C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
160 audio & 349 video codecs

Playing User:Work/Downloads/big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (2 superindexchunks).
VIDEO: [FMP4] 1280x720 24bpp 24.000 fps 4001.7 kbps (488.5 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: AVI-Mux GUI 1.17.7, Aug 8 2006 20:59:17
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [null] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12


BENCHMARKs: VC: 601.852s VO: 0.170s A: 0.000s Sys: 14.805s = 616.826s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 97.5723% VO: 0.0276% A: 0.0000% Sys: 2.4001% = 100.0000%

Exiting... (End of file)

@Hans
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@tommysammy

Thank you.
This would project the Sam460 at around 583s for the Big_Buck_Bunny decode.
So maybe 720p playback will be possible.
We await an actual Sam460 benchmark to see.

@SinanSam460

Try the mplayer benchmark your sam460

http://download.blender.org/peach/big ... uck_bunny_720p_stereo.avi


mplayer -benchmark -nosound -ao null -vo null -lavdopts skiploopfilter=none big_buck_bunny_720p_stereo.avi


I think that the results would have to be 596s for realtime cpu decode . (18.20% of an AMD FX 4300 quad core 2.8GHZ =108.4732s)

Using the benchmark figures for the Prometheus 1080p clip that I have of 23.778 and 399.791, the Sam460 may take up to 1825s to complete the big_buck_bunny benchmark though.

@AmigaSociety

These should be the supported series from my understanding of the published compatibility.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product ... d&Order=PRICE&PageSize=30

@Severin

now we can compare to this.
Benchmarking your AROS machine with MPlayer
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=63722

@Severin

Thanks.
I think that it is always good to post benchmarks as it allows you to see improvements over time.

@Severin

Could your do the benchmark with the favorite cross platform video please .

http://downloads.dvdloc8.com/trailers ... st/prometheus-trailer.zip

@ChrisH

what about checking the uboot version and whether the pci update patch was ever applied.

http://www.acube-systems.biz/download ... mini_updater_20110215.zip

http://www.acube-systems.biz/common/file/pci-mini-update.lha

@Mikey_C

No so hard. Finding one that is supported is.
I got one of these but it did not work.
Did report my findings to Acube.
Would be a good option to support

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829270010

@rebraist

I use Turbocalc a lot.
Turboprint is also very useful.