On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I see. Well, if the performance difference is not enough to make playing > videos viable, it is probably not worth the effort then. > The other thing to bear in mind is, I'm not sure how old a system you had in mind, but SSE at least implies minimum Pentium III, as that was the first gen CPU to implement those instructions (there was MMX before that starting with the Pentium MMX, but that one isn't architected quite as well and consequently doesn't yield as much of a performance boost, especially since it gets quite nasty to try and mix with floating point code. Regards, Rene