System: Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz MacBook with 2GB RAM FFmpeg version SVN-r12807, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-pthreads --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --cc=ccache gcc --extra-cflags=-march=prescott libavutil version: 49.6.0 libavcodec version: 51.54.0 libavformat version: 52.13.0 libavdevice version: 52.0.0 libavfilter version: 0.0.0 built on Apr 13 2008 19:43:58, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5478) I made MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 samples using: ffmpeg -ss 00:30:00 -i infile -an -t 00:05:00 -vcodec mpeg(1|2)video -qscale 4 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -mbd 2 -flags +trell outfile.mpg Unpatched: ffmpeg -y -benchmark -i 'samples/mpeg1/superbad.mpg' -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 bench: utime=9.940s bench: utime=9.874s bench: utime=9.873s bench: utime=9.963s bench: utime=9.862s ffmpeg -y -benchmark -i 'samples/mpeg2/superbad.mpg' -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 bench: utime=10.414s bench: utime=10.408s bench: utime=10.468s bench: utime=10.433s bench: utime=10.468s Patch 0002-Unroll-codepath.patch: 'source/ffmpeg-patched/ffmpeg' -y -benchmark -i 'samples/mpeg1/superbad.mpg' -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 bench: utime=9.834s bench: utime=9.932s bench: utime=9.846s bench: utime=9.829s bench: utime=9.827s 'source/ffmpeg-patched/ffmpeg' -y -benchmark -i 'samples/mpeg2/superbad.mpg' -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 bench: utime=10.572s bench: utime=10.472s bench: utime=10.500s bench: utime=10.514s bench: utime=10.473s Patches 0002-Unroll-codepath.patch and 0004-Unroll-codepath.patch: 'source/ffmpeg-patched/ffmpeg' -y -benchmark -i 'samples/mpeg1/superbad.mpg' -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 bench: utime=9.847s bench: utime=9.858s bench: utime=9.798s bench: utime=9.849s bench: utime=9.908s 'source/ffmpeg-patched/ffmpeg' -y -benchmark -i 'samples/mpeg2/superbad.mpg' -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 bench: utime=10.478s bench: utime=10.477s bench: utime=10.419s bench: utime=10.497s bench: utime=10.486s All three patches: 'source/ffmpeg-patched/ffmpeg' -y -benchmark -i 'samples/mpeg1/superbad.mpg' -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 bench: utime=9.953s bench: utime=9.840s bench: utime=9.864s bench: utime=9.854s bench: utime=9.818s 'source/ffmpeg-patched/ffmpeg' -y -benchmark -i 'samples/mpeg2/superbad.mpg' -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 bench: utime=10.488s bench: utime=10.391s bench: utime=10.442s bench: utime=10.443s bench: utime=10.509s