Re: mplayer tip

2010-12-24 Thread Dan Harnett
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:46:36PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > This is a laptop with intel video, other systems may be different, but > if you're having any trouble with mplayer video, the gl driver is > worth trying. I used to notice a lot of tearing on Intel X3100 chipsets (GM965). I don't see

mplayer tip

2010-12-24 Thread Ted Unangst
Contrary to the mplayer documentation, the gl video output driver may work better than xv, at least for some systems, in at least two ways. Playing a large video (1080p), xv can't keep up, and the video falls behind audio. With gl, works great. Even with xv, CPU is considerably less than 100%, s