On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 08:50:50PM -0300, Mario Rugiero wrote: > 2012/4/3 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <vi...@viric.name> > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 03:05:01PM -0300, Mario Rugiero wrote: > > > Are you sure you are not using xv or xvmc with mplayer? This could affect > > > CPU use, since it uses the GPU for a part of the decoding. > > > > xv for sure. xvmc maybe. > > Do you think it would matter that much? I'm impressed the flash plugin > > works so > > slow then, with that chipset. The computer is built much after youtube > > became > > popular. :) > > > But IIRC flash plugin doesn't use hardware acceleration under Unichrome > cards on Linux, and xv does use your IGP acceleration. So, CPU use will be > less with mplayer for sure, if your driver supports xv.
Ok, so it is a case where the flash plugin uses one of the slowest paths possible to display a video. Is it? Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list openchrome-users@openchrome.org http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
