On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing > > wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard > > Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop. > > mplayer now has 5 video output modes that actually show a picture... > > > > xv X11/Xv > > gl_nosw OpenGL no software rendering > > x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) > > gl OpenGL > > gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version > > > > Which one has the best playback ability? Is there a test program or a > > "torture test" video file I can use for testing? > > > > > > 2) When I start up mplayer, the diagnostics include... > > "MMX2 supported but disabled" > > > > There is no "mmx2" in the USE flags or in /proc/cpuinfo > > > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > cpu family : 6 > > model : 15 > > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz > > stepping : 13 > > .................... > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm > > constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl > > est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm > > > > ...and I have "-march=native" in my CFLAGS. Any explanations? > > > > > This may help, may not. When I was playing with this a year or so ago, > I found a HD test video on the internet somewhere. I'm pretty sure it > was 1080p. I set smplayer to play and repeat the video and then I > watched the CPU and temps on the video card. I would try each setting > and see how much CPU load there was and watched the temps on the video > card. I figure if the card temps are warmer, it is giving the card a > work out instead of my CPU. > > I ended up using "gl (fast)" for mine but this may not work at all for > your system. This may give you a way to test the settings and sort of > know if the right hardware is doing its job or not. > > Here is two links if you want to try my weird way of doing this: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Innx3puNI > > I use downloadhelper to grab those then play them locally. Both of > those are available in 1080p tho. Should warm up something. ;-) > > Dale
Rather than downloadhelper and a web browser, try: mingdao@workstation ~/test $ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI [youtube] Setting language [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video webpage [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Extracting video information [download] Destination: XITHbsUUlYI.mp4 [download] 30.5% of 107.04M at 1.43M/s ETA 00:52 -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
