Paul Hartman writes:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org>
> wrote:
> > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard
> > drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of
> > RAM. Running gentoo-sources-3.2.1 as kernel. But it seems playing
> > movies got even worse!
>
> You don't mention anything about video card or video driver setup.
> That's the first thing I would suspect.
>
> What video card? What drivers? Are you using hardware accelerated
> movie playback?
Sorry. Radeon HD 4250 onboard graphics, using the open source radeon
driver. Hardware acceleration is working fine. As I wrote, it doesn't
matter which quality the videos are. There is not much CPU being used at
all, around 5% to 20%, so this is not the bottleneck.
Wonko
