Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
You have dual core so 60% means: 50% (full one core) is for decoding, and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. You can't play the video correctly because your decoder is not multithreaded and uses just the one CPU at its fullest. Try using multithreaded version of mplayer mplayer-mt (in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 12:35 PM, App Deb wrote: You have dual core so 60% means: 50% (full one core) is for decoding, and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. Oh - didn't think about this - yes... you could be seeing the wrong thing in top. If you have more than 1 CPU/Core you should push 1 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Mick
On 7 July 2010 12:27, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: Use htop to see threads. As far as I know top won't show those. So you can't check if your multi-threaded mplayer is really using more than 1 thread/process. What do you get when you press upper case 'H' in top? -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Grant
You have dual core so 60% means: 50% (full one core) is for decoding, and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. You can't play the video correctly because your decoder is not multithreaded and uses just the one CPU at its fullest. Try using multithreaded version of mplayer mplayer-mt (in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 03:01 PM, Mick wrote: On 7 July 2010 12:27, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: Use htop to see threads. As far as I know top won't show those. So you can't check if your multi-threaded mplayer is really using more than 1 thread/process. What do you get when you press

[gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-06 Thread Grant
I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has actually come a long way since the last time I tried and playing Blu-Ray rips via mplayer is nearly