Yeah, sorry if my words sounded harsh, I didn't mean to (developer's life ;)). Anyway, I saw the new unity branches and I hope they'll cover this "issue" too. I will try your suggestion meanwhile.
2012/6/14 Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.v...@canonical.com>: > I agree completely that optimal performance should be achieved > automagically. Just trying to suggest workarounds while we don't have > time to fix everything in code (yet). > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993397 > > Title: > vdpau not working (well) with Ubuntu12.04 Unity > > Status in Compiz: > Confirmed > Status in Compiz Core: > Confirmed > Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu: > New > Status in Unity: > Confirmed > Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > vdpau works very poorly in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on Unity3d. Same 1080p > movies use around 6-10% of cpu in 11.04 and 11.10 shoots up to 50-60% > of cpu usage in 12.04 with vdpau and mplayer (all under Unity 3d) . I > have tried several nvidia drivers and the results are the same (Nvidia > current 295.40, 295.20 and 295.33 32 bits) Videocard is Nvidia G105M > > This seems to be a Unity rather than a Nvidia bug as cpu usage drops > back to around 6 -10% for same movies in Gnome shell. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/993397/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993397 Title: vdpau not working (well) with Ubuntu12.04 Unity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/993397/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs