The xine performace was basically identical. mplayer also wouldn't work.
When I say the performance is bad, I mean sub 1 fps at fullscreen with a dvd-ripped source (approximately 720x480) . Sound is not a problem it seems, video just lags like hell and the gui is very unresponsive while the avi content is playing. Like you could wait a minute or two before the action of a button press on the xine control panel takes effect.
I have a cruddy 100mbps switch in the network. Maybe that's part of the problem. I don't expect that imposing a network between X client and server will result in "just like a workstation" desktop performance, but evidently other people are getting a better result with applications like this and I'm curious to know why. I've never benchmarked my network to see how good/bad it is vs. fast ethernet theoretical maximums.
Thanks in advance to anyone with advice.
~j
hazzmat wrote:
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
Sorry --meant to send my replies to the list.
It is probably not the network. Try to play videos in small resolution to see if that helps, if it does then it might probably be the video card (but then again, that might indicate the network... if playing one fullscreen video on one client is bad, but one small video on many thin clients is ok, then it is the video vard). Also try to run xnetload to see how much the network is loaded too...
// Dag Sverre
Fullscreen is terrible -- less that 1 fps. playing an approximately 700x400 avi ripped from dvd.
Sound is actually good it's the picture that seems to be really slow.
I will rig a faster desktop (k6-2+ 550mhz) with my etherbooting network card, with an nvidia agp card and see how xine does on that. Unfortunately I can't test the many clients idea.
Thanks for the advice.
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