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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 19.10.2010 14:23, schrieb Dale: |
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>> Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>> Am 19.10.2010 09:45, schrieb Dale: |
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>>>> Hi, |
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>>>> I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a |
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>>>> GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My |
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>>>> system is something like this: |
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>>>> Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 |
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>>>> CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking |
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>>>> Memory: 2Gbs of 333Mhz. |
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>>>> Monitor: Gateway 19" running 1280 x 1024 |
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>>>> I think my memory is fine, it never uses all of it, or even half of it, |
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>>>> except for caching stuff. I may try to get a 3000+ or 3200+ CPU if I |
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>>>> can run up on a good deal. I'm thinking of doing the video card first |
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>>>> because it is cheaper. I have also noticed that playing movies on here |
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>>>> is getting a bit slow if I go full screen or close to full screen. I'm |
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>>>> bad to download from youtube and then play them locally full screen or |
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>>>> as close as it will allow. |
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>>>> I do use the nvidia drivers. Currently: |
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>>>> nvidia-drivers-173.14.25 |
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>>>> I'm on that one because I think I need to upgrade my kernel to use the |
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>>>> latest one that was recently put in the tree. I'm looking at this card: |
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>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133328 |
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>>>> What kind of improvement can I expect from this video card upgrade? |
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>>>> While I am at it, the CPU upgrade won't make that much difference |
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>>>> right? Maybe 20% or so faster or something like that? |
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>>> Hi Dale, |
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>>> first and foremost, a newer card will allow you to use the newest driver |
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>>> series (195.*.*) which is always a good thing ;) |
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>>> It also gives you more texture units. You can use these to transfer more |
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>>> work to your GPU (mostly scaling and such). Take a look at `man mplayer` |
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>>> section '-vo gl' for a list of options. |
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>>> VLC has similar options, I think. I don't know about gstreamer or xine. |
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>>> I could be wrong but I don't think that adobe-flash uses these options. |
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>>> That is probably part of the problem why flash is so much slower on |
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>>> GNU/Linux than on Windows. If my assumption is true, you are better off |
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>>> buying a faster CPU. |
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>>> You could also test how gnash performs. Since it uses ffmpeg (AFAIK) it |
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>>> might be worth a try. |
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>>> Please take my advices with a big dose of salt. While I still run an old |
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>>> desktop with nearly identical specs, I almost never use Youtube and |
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>>> therefore have no experience with that. |
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>>> Hope this helps, |
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>>> Florian Philipp |
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>> This particular card I think uses the latest 260.* drivers. That's |
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>> according to the nvidia site but sometimes that is not correct either. |
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>> Anyway, I always download the videos off youtube or where ever and then |
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>> watch them with smplayer locally. It generally works better for the |
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>> most part. I just have the slow DSL so it skips a bit on some if I |
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>> don't download it first. I do need a faster CPU but want to get the |
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>> card first. I do sometimes max out the CPU when watching a video but I |
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>> think most of the time it is the card that is just getting old and needs |
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>> a new one that is a little faster at least. For the price, I was going |
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>> to get a card that is a good bit faster. |
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> Ah, in that case tweaking your mplayer config might really help. Look at |
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> the man page for options (-vo gl:...). |
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> You really have to try every option and sometimes reasonable |
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> combinations. I've found that even if the man page says it is a slow |
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> option, sometimes it's the fastest. As I've said before, you will reach |
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> the maximum number of texture units in your card, therefore certain |
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> options will not work together but the man page tells you how many |
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> texture units each option needs. With that info it should be easy to |
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> tweak your settings. |
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> To get you going, try mplayer -vo gl:yuv=2:lscale=1:cscale=1<file> |
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> Don't forget to test it in fullscreen mode. |
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> You can later apply these options either in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf or |
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> in ~/.mplayer/config like this: "vo=gl:yuv=2:lscale=1:cscale=1" |
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> Hope this helps, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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I'll look into that in a bit. Sort of having a so so day today. Those |
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options may help tho. I mostly play mp4's tho. They can be pretty big. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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