> Paul Andre wrote: > > Does your Xserver support the Xvideo extension ? > > xdpyinfo | grep -i xvideo > > It does! It is listed by xdpyinfo.
good ! > > Does your media player use it ? > > Well, I don't know for sure. Here's the list of > video output drivers > for mplayer that I have [ snip] hmm, It seems it doesn't. [snip] > My computer is not too > slow, it's Thinkpad > R50 1.5GHz Pentium M, playing DVD's nicely while I > had Linux on it (no, > I'm not thinking of going back ;-)). > > It definitely seems like some kind of > acceleration/optimization is not > enabled and that the processor and graphics card are > working too hard. > your CPU is working too hard : he is doing the scaling and colorspace convertion. The Xvideo extention offloads the processing to the GPU (which is faster at it). I would get a media player using Xvideo for playback. Maybe vlc, or recompiling mlayer/xine with the right option ... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list [email protected]
