Phil, I am using an AMD A4-3400 which is apparently only 800Mhz (but indeed dual core). However CPU load is not the limiting factor (according to top).
I will try VLC as you suggest. Paul On 12/21/2011 04:42 AM, Phil Raymond wrote: > Sorry, I need to slow down my thought process when reading. Obviously, the > amdcccle tool is the Catalyst Control. The only other idea i can suggest is > to use the vlc plugin. I do have better results using vlc, instead of > mplayer. I'm assuming you do have at least 2.2 ghz dual core processor, > that's the only other thing I can think of that could effect frame rate. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Phil Raymond <tvp...@yahoo.com> > To: "freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Cc: ' > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:17 PM > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] stop 'tearing' in AMD Radeon HD 6410D? > > Paul, > > I use the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 and like you, install the fglrx > drivers. When you downloaded the driver from AMD, you should have also gotten > the Catalyst Control Center automatically. It is the ATI graphics card > control software and one of the display options is for "tear free" to reduce > tearing. One difference between your system and mine is I'm running Xubuntu > 11.10, not Ubuntu (I can't stand Unity). I get to the Catalyst Control Center > under "Settings Manager". I can't remember what the Ubuntu equivalent of that > might be, but it should be somewhere. > > Phil > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul Sijben <p...@sijben.net> > To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:50 PM > Subject: [Freevo-users] stop 'tearing' in AMD Radeon HD 6410D? > > I recently upgraded my freevo box to a new motherboard that uses the AMD > Radeon HD 6410D chipset. > > The only way I could get it to work was with the proprietary fglrx > driver (the open source driver requires KMS which is a sure-fire way of > crashing the kernel). But now I have the choice between 'tearing' of > video and a very low framerate (when I check the no tearing option in > the amdcccle tool). > > Does anyone know what is the right way of getting this video chipset to > deliver the promised performance? > > Paul > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
