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Originally Posted by jmonier
My experience with the Microsoft decoder is that it uses a lot more CPU time for VC-1 interlaced than non-interlaced. Since it's apparently not multi-threaded, that means that one processor can get close to the practical limit.
One VC-1 interlaced file that I have won't run smoothly on anything less than than an i7-960 using the Microsoft decoder.
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The libav or Intel decoders aren't any better.
libav is not multi-threaded, and of course fails on interlaced completely. The Intel decoder seems generally to be pretty slow.