On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Travis King <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:46:36 -0500 > Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Contrary to the mplayer documentation, the gl video output driver may >> work better than xv, at least for some systems, in at least two ways. >> >> Playing a large video (1080p), xv can't keep up, and the video falls >> behind audio. With gl, works great. Even with xv, CPU is >> considerably less than 100%, so the problem is "elsewhere". > > What is your hardware setup for this?
Thinkpad x200s. 1.8Ghz Core 2, Intel GM45 or X4500 or whatever they called it that week. My screen is only 1440x900, so I generally aim for 720p videos to save time, but I have some 1080p videos from before I learned to control youtube-dl properly. :)
