On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Douglas Royds <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > try various alternative -vo options, x11 xv, xover, gl, or even vdpau if you have a supporting video card. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );
