On Thu, 4 May 2000, Farrell Woods wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Anyone have a guess as to why video performance is sub-par on my 400MHz
> P-III Compaq Deskpro EN? It has a built-in ATI Rage Pro with 8MB of
> memory, so I'm using the Mach64 server (3.3.6, under RH6.2).
>
> Some quicktime videos viewed with xanim and also mpeg's viewed with mtv
> are really, really choppy. Even in tiny windows. Average frame rate
> is ~10fps. Usually less.
>
> I don't think it's memory-starved: I've got 128MB and I wasn't running
> Netscape at the time, and I'd just restarted X to get back all the
> memory that Gnome/Enlightenment routinely leak over time. The vid's
> are on disk, which is a reasonably fast ultra/wide SCSI drive.
>
> Also tried running just the X server & mtv (no window mangler, etc.) but
> the performace was almost exactly the same. (This also got around the issue
> with Enlightenment & KDE both polling the CD-ROM continually to see if anything's
> in there.)
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -- Farrell
The best mpeg viewer for linux is the smpeg program/library developed by
Loki Games: http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3
=Adam=
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