On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Charles Christopher G Dolera wrote:
..
> >It's glorious!! playing movies with Xine at full-screen (1152x900 or
> >1280x1024) with zero CPU utilization (thanks to hardware-accelerated
> >XVideo and XVideo-MotionCompensation in XFree86 4.1.0 is glorious!!
>
> I have yet to try that now that I just upgraded to 4.1.0 too, but
> enabling 3D support for my Geforce2 still makes my box freeze. I've
> got a good MB, ASUS but on a via chipset. Will try it on DVD, but I
> heard that below 700mhz speed will make your playtime choppy. I got a
..
I doubt if things will chop. Decoding VCD's takes about 3% of my CPU
(xine) and about 0.5% (X server) for total 3.5%.
CPU load goes up to 5% or so when I'm running full-screen (1152x900, this
is HARDWARE SCALED, not just switching X to a lower resolution). Even
assuming a 4X increase in CPU load when decoding DVD's (since they are
640x480) that's only 20%. Hardly enough to cause chopping.
Are you using the latest NVIDIA drivers (not the open-source ones)? I am
*not* using an NVIDIA card, I'm using an ATI Radeon. 975MHz (overclocked)
Pentium-III -- note that Xine has SSE optimizations. BTW I also have a
VIA-based mobo, Abit VP6.
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