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 );

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