Richard Fillion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems i've partially fixed my problems with slow video output. I > built XF4.3 and installed it. Now it takes forever to get into X, > but if it makes it better, i'm all for it. I can play mpegs rather > well, only dropping a few frames here and there. I have 'mplayer' > aliased to 'mplayer -framedrop -vo sdl -cache 65536 '. Yes, 64megs > of cache, hey i have 512megs of RAM, may aswell put it to use. Divx > at original size is decent, almost watchable, but fullscreen it > starts dropping frames like crazy.
That indicates you're not using the Xv extension. Xv moves YUV-conversion and scaling to the hardware, which saves a lot of CPU time. Try xvinfo to see whether your card and driver support it, or mplayer -vo xv. -- Falk