On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:54:24 -0500 Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. :) That's incredible. I was reading some threads(albeit from some Linux distro mailing list) from 2008 about a 2Ghz Core2Duo with some Intel GPU on a R61(a machine I recently bought) being too slow for 1080 resolutions with mplayer in any situation. This gives me some hope that I don't need to down-convert media to 720p... What codecs and containers are you using, and what bitrate? -- end
