Oops. Those numbers were a bit adrift. Here is mplayer playing miniDV:
mplr 60%
Xorg 22%
pulse 10%
Eventually it settled down to the 45/45 that I showed below, which might
have more to do with kernel load-sharing than anything, though I don't
know what X was up to.
For the comparison, totem (gstreamer) playing the same DV:
totem 45-57%
xorg 10-16%
pulse 2-15%
For some reason, mplayer is slightly more demanding on X, and
substantially less efficient at decoding DV than gstreamer is, and it's
tipping my elderly laptop over the edge.
No video editing for me.
Douglas.
Douglas Royds wrote:
Having convinced Totem to play both DVDs and DV-AVI just fine, I find
that Mplayer is struggling a bit.
Totem
DVD 31% idle (worst case)
DV-AVI 16% idle (worst case)
Mplayer
DVD 21% idle (worst case)
DV-AVI 0% <--- ie. can't play it
What's going on? Watching mplayer, Xorg, and pulseaudio in top reveals:
DVD
mplr 40-46% CPU
Xorg 16-18%
pulse 2-15%
DV
mplr 40-46% CPU
Xorg 45% <--- !!!
pulse 2-15%
So it's Xorg that's doing the damage when I try to view DV.
Suggestions?
Douglas.
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