On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> The "xv" (XVideo) mode is the most efficient one to use if you have one of
> the "accelerator" cards out there (e.g., any NVidia card) because all the
> video scaling is done in the graphics hardware, not through the X-Windows
> software;
This is the only mode that works fine for me, using any other mode renders
me a jumpy image and this on a Quad Core machine (yes, I use 1920x1200 or
what it's default on a HDTV), the bad thing with xv IMHO is that subtitles
melts into the image too much, they kind of get the same color as the
color behind the subtitle (using gl or gl2 fixes this).
What we should maybe be more surprised over is that mplayer do work :P
> Thanks to the XVideo extension, I can view a full-screen video with
> just a few percent (!) of the CPU being utilized. I believe that "xv" is
> also the default mode for mplayer.
Yes, xv is the default that mplayer uses.
It's a while since I used ctwm as my default desktop, but back in the old
times it worked fine in fullscreen, then only trouble I have had with
mplayer and ctwm is when you move the mplayer window, the video playing
pauses.
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//Aho
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