On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Chandan Pitta" wrote:
> > I really don't understand how the overlays are done and what is required
> by
> > mplayer or xine to get that, but does this mean kaa.popcorn will not be
> > using xine or mplayer backends?
>
> You will still be able to use mplayer or xine. The default is xine
> right now because gstreamer lacks AC3 pass-through (and gst support in
> kaa.popcorn is very basic).
>
> > When you said you will be using openGL to solve the problems do you
> > mean the backend player (I presume gstreamer) will use openGL? My
> > experience was that using "-vo gl" in mplayer was taxing my cpu more
> > than when using "-vo xv". The cpu almost dries up when playing 1080
> > resolution videos using gl. So using gstreamer with gl will have the
> > same effect or will it be using the accelerations of xv?
>
> We will use no gl output from the player, we use the gl output of
> clutter. You will have two choices for Freevo 2.0:
>
> 1. Use xv as you are doing now. No additional CPU load but we can not
> draw on top of the player and we can not show the video inside
> Freevo as a small window. Consider that the fallback.
>
> 2. All player will render themself into a clutter.Texture which will
> use GL to draw the video. Once it is inside a Texture we can draw
> stuff on it, rotate it, scale it, etc. This _may_ result in a
> higher CPU load depending on your graphic card. E.g. Jason has
> close to no additional CPU load for NVidia while I have a high load
> using an Intel chip.
>
This is interesting. I have a high end nVidia graphics card (8800 GT) and
yet when using gl my cpu hovers around 75% (on a 2.4 GHz AMD X2) when
playing 1080i, so chances of being able to play blu-ray are pretty slim.
Jason can you send me the command-line you are using. I have been searching
forums for a long time to understand the problem.
> Freevo 2.0 will use clutter as UI backend which uses GL. If you have
> software GL with mesa you should use the fallback without OSD.
>
>
> Dischi
>
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