Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:05:14 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This may help, may not. When I was playing with this a year or so ago, I found a HD test video on the internet somewhere. I'm pretty sure it was 1080p. I set smplayer to play and repeat the video and then I watched the CPU and temps on the video card. I would try each setting and see how much CPU load there was and watched the temps on the video card. I figure if the card temps are warmer, it is giving the card a work out instead of my CPU. Personally I use a local Bluray 1080p rip of Transformers3 for that. I figure if the scene with Optimus and Sentinel bashing hunks off each other doesn't give a GPU a decent work-out, then nothing will and it's a fun movie, much more interesting to watch than temp guages -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings
Am 19.12.2012 00:20, schrieb Walter Dnes: 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop. mplayer now has 5 video output modes that actually show a picture... xv X11/Xv This doesn't use any GPU features. Good compatibility but otherwise not recommended. gl_nosw OpenGL no software rendering Same as gl just that it fails when you have driver issues that prevent it from using the GPU. More like a debugging tool. x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) Practically outdated. gl OpenGL Recommended. Should work okay without further tuning but offers a lot of them. Just play around. gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version Unmaintained. Use gl. Which one has the best playback ability? Is there a test program or a torture test video file I can use for testing? 2) When I start up mplayer, the diagnostics include... MMX2 supported but disabled There is no mmx2 in the USE flags or in /proc/cpuinfo That should be USE=mmxext. No clue what's its name in cpuinfo but since you are running something newer than a P3 it should be a safe bet. PS: Have to tried mplayer2? It's mostly compatible but offers no mencoder support but you can install mplayer to get that. It has better threading support and some other minor improvements. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 03:38:15PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote gl OpenGL Recommended. Should work okay without further tuning but offers a lot of them. Just play around. [...deletia...] 2) When I start up mplayer, the diagnostics include... MMX2 supported but disabled There is no mmx2 in the USE flags or in /proc/cpuinfo That should be USE=mmxext. No clue what's its name in cpuinfo but since you are running something newer than a P3 it should be a safe bet. Thanks for the feedback. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings
Walter Dnes wrote: 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop. mplayer now has 5 video output modes that actually show a picture... xv X11/Xv gl_nosw OpenGL no software rendering x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) gl OpenGL gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version Which one has the best playback ability? Is there a test program or a torture test video file I can use for testing? 2) When I start up mplayer, the diagnostics include... MMX2 supported but disabled There is no mmx2 in the USE flags or in /proc/cpuinfo vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz stepping: 13 flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm ...and I have -march=native in my CFLAGS. Any explanations? This may help, may not. When I was playing with this a year or so ago, I found a HD test video on the internet somewhere. I'm pretty sure it was 1080p. I set smplayer to play and repeat the video and then I watched the CPU and temps on the video card. I would try each setting and see how much CPU load there was and watched the temps on the video card. I figure if the card temps are warmer, it is giving the card a work out instead of my CPU. I ended up using gl (fast) for mine but this may not work at all for your system. This may give you a way to test the settings and sort of know if the right hardware is doing its job or not. Here is two links if you want to try my weird way of doing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Innx3puNI I use downloadhelper to grab those then play them locally. Both of those are available in 1080p tho. Should warm up something. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop. mplayer now has 5 video output modes that actually show a picture... xv X11/Xv gl_nosw OpenGL no software rendering x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) gl OpenGL gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version Which one has the best playback ability? Is there a test program or a torture test video file I can use for testing? 2) When I start up mplayer, the diagnostics include... MMX2 supported but disabled There is no mmx2 in the USE flags or in /proc/cpuinfo vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz stepping: 13 flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm ...and I have -march=native in my CFLAGS. Any explanations? This may help, may not. When I was playing with this a year or so ago, I found a HD test video on the internet somewhere. I'm pretty sure it was 1080p. I set smplayer to play and repeat the video and then I watched the CPU and temps on the video card. I would try each setting and see how much CPU load there was and watched the temps on the video card. I figure if the card temps are warmer, it is giving the card a work out instead of my CPU. I ended up using gl (fast) for mine but this may not work at all for your system. This may give you a way to test the settings and sort of know if the right hardware is doing its job or not. Here is two links if you want to try my weird way of doing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Innx3puNI I use downloadhelper to grab those then play them locally. Both of those are available in 1080p tho. Should warm up something. ;-) Dale Rather than downloadhelper and a web browser, try: mingdao@workstation ~/test $ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI [youtube] Setting language [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video webpage [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Extracting video information [download] Destination: XITHbsUUlYI.mp4 [download] 30.5% of 107.04M at1.43M/s ETA 00:52 -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings
Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop. mplayer now has 5 video output modes that actually show a picture... xv X11/Xv gl_nosw OpenGL no software rendering x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) gl OpenGL gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version Which one has the best playback ability? Is there a test program or a torture test video file I can use for testing? 2) When I start up mplayer, the diagnostics include... MMX2 supported but disabled There is no mmx2 in the USE flags or in /proc/cpuinfo vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz stepping: 13 flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm ...and I have -march=native in my CFLAGS. Any explanations? This may help, may not. When I was playing with this a year or so ago, I found a HD test video on the internet somewhere. I'm pretty sure it was 1080p. I set smplayer to play and repeat the video and then I watched the CPU and temps on the video card. I would try each setting and see how much CPU load there was and watched the temps on the video card. I figure if the card temps are warmer, it is giving the card a work out instead of my CPU. I ended up using gl (fast) for mine but this may not work at all for your system. This may give you a way to test the settings and sort of know if the right hardware is doing its job or not. Here is two links if you want to try my weird way of doing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Innx3puNI I use downloadhelper to grab those then play them locally. Both of those are available in 1080p tho. Should warm up something. ;-) Dale Rather than downloadhelper and a web browser, try: mingdao@workstation ~/test $ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI [youtube] Setting language [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video webpage [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Extracting video information [download] Destination: XITHbsUUlYI.mp4 [download] 30.5% of 107.04M at1.43M/s ETA 00:52 Some videos are available in different resolutions. Some have as many as 6 or 8 different ones. With downloadhelper, you can pick which one you want. I'm not sure if youtube-dl does or not. Also, I download videos from lots of sites. I don't actually use youtube a lot. Good idea for folks that use youtube a lot tho. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
