Howdy, As some know, I recently bought a video card. While not the most modern thing, it is a lot faster than my old one. I have a question tho. When I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high resolution or a medium resolution, it seems to use a good bit of CPU power. I notice in gkrellm, htop etc that it is using about 20 to sometimes 40 or 50% of CPU power. Yes, I still have the 8 core CPU in here. In Smplayer, I have video driver set to "gl(fast)" but have tried other settings as well. Obviously, some just plain don't work at all. It causes Smplayer to crash. I did some googling, I think this is the best driver setting for my card. It is nvidia based. Question, how do I know it is using the video card to process as much of the video as it is supposed to be doing? Is there some command I'm not aware of to test this? Here is some hardware info.
root@fireball / # lspci -k 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] (rev a1) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia_drm, nvidia root@fireball / # glxinfo name of display: :0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 This is what I get with glxgears at full screen. Note, video is playing on the TV as well, just not on current screen. root@fireball / # glxgears 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.133 FPS 306 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.123 FPS 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.154 FPS 312 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.217 FPS 309 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.619 FPS 307 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.265 FPS 315 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.936 FPS XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" after 13277 requests (13277 known processed) with 0 events remaining. root@fireball / # Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
