30 fps when playing DV ? That's very good!
When I play a video, the picture in the compositor window looks like a
slide-show. It plays at around 3 or 4 fps. I render hundreds of time
when working on a video.

Nicolas.

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 03:21:29PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> For quite some time, I've been agonizing over using Hvirtual's 2.0 
> release vs the cvs release.  The problem was the hvirtual binary did 
> ~20FPS dv playback, but cvs only did ~6FPS.  Enter oprofile.
> 
> My FC4 system is more or less a stock system, plus bits from the extras, 
> freshrpms, and livna to solve all build dependencies.  As others have 
> suggested, the slowness was in libdv (In particular, a routine with 
> O(n**4) characteristics!), but recompiling with "-O1 -fPIC" did not 
> solve it..  Since the libdv in question was from around 2 years ago, the 
> libdv from sourceforge's cvs repository seemed like a better choice. 
> Now my playback is *much* better, similar to that of the hvirtual result.
> 
> Further, playing around with the audio, it appears playback being 
> enabled can cause a *dramatic* drop in FPS!  My system uses the OSS 
> Audio Driver.  It turns out the larger the "Samples to send to console 
> at a time" setting, the slower the playback.  By dropping it down to 
> 2048, my system gets a full 30FPS.  The 20FPS formerly mentioned is with 
> the setting at 32768 and it goes all the way down to 10FPS at 65536.
> 
> Anyway, in the interest of helping out and possibly others investigating 
> further optimizations, here is a link to my resulting binaries as well 
> as a script that runs the profiler.  These sources are the latest for 
> both cinelerra svn and libdv cvs.
> 
> http://www.swcp.com/~synk/cinelerra/
> 
> The script that runs the profiler is attached to this message.
> 
> -Brendan

> sudo opcontrol --shutdown
> sudo opcontrol --reset
> sudo opcontrol --setup --event=GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS:860000 --separate=library
> sudo opcontrol --start
> cinelerra /twinkies/2005/christmas-hafla/tape1/xmas-001.avi
> sudo opcontrol --shutdown
> sudo opreport -t 5 --long-filenames
> sudo opreport -l --long-filenames /usr/lib64/libdv.so.4.0.2


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