Bruce Hill wrote: > 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
Some videos are available in different resolutions. Some have as many as 6 or 8 different ones. With downloadhelper, you can pick which one you want. I'm not sure if youtube-dl does or not. Also, I download videos from lots of sites. I don't actually use youtube a lot. Good idea for folks that use youtube a lot tho. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
