The beta Nvidia driver available on their website (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-302.07.run) solved my high CPU usage issues.
Andy On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:45 AM, drabina <[email protected]> wrote: > @David Bartley > Disabled 'sync to vBlank' didn't help - still huge CPU usage. > > -- > 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 compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
