On Wednesday 18 May 2011 16:59:13 Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > Since updating to mplayer and KDE to current stable > (media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20101114 and kde-4.6), I notice two > performance regressions: > > 1. The system can no longer handle videos with VGA resolution or higher > at 25 FPS (I'm talking about a Core i5 with corresponding intel > graphics, btw). > 2. glxgears reports > "Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be > approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. > 291 frames in 5.0 seconds = 58.121 FPS" > > So, even if it is running vsync, 58 FPS is definitely not the refresh > rate. Previously, it has been around 1000 FPS or something like this. > > I don't believe mplayer is really the problem since VLC also has this > problem and ffmpeg was not updated. > > Does anyone else experience this? I don't have an xorg.conf file. Do I > need to make some settings since updating KDE? > > Thanks in advance! > Florian Philipp
you have vsync turned on. Turn it off.
