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From: waltdnes@××××××××.org
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:18:34
Message-Id: 20050907010804.GA26857@waltdnes.org
1 I'm running an AMD64 3000+ with 2 gigs of ram and an ATI Radeon X300.
2 It's dropping frames on internet TV sites where it should easily be able
3 to keep up. I've built mplayer with mmx/mmxext/3dnow/3dnowext/sse/sse2
4 so I don't see any room for speedup there. I can get "-vo sdl" and
5 "-vo xv" to work, but not "-vo radeon_vid". As a matter of fact, I
6 can't find any vidix modules at all. They're simply not being built.
7 Here's the output of "emerge -pv mplayer".
8
9 [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 -3dfx +3dnow +3dnowext
10 +X +aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection
11 +custom-cflags -debug +dga -directfb +divx4linux -doc -dts -dv -dvb +dvd
12 +dvdread -edl +encode -esd -fbcon -ggi +gif -gtk +i8x0 -ipv6 -jack
13 -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo -mad -matroska -matrox +mmx
14 +mmxext -mythtv -nas -nls -nvidia +opengl -oss +png +real -rtc -samba
15 +sdl +sse +sse2 -svga -tga +theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 +vorbis
16 +win32codecs -xanim -xinerama -xmms +xv -xvid -xvmc 7,397 kB
17
18 For some reason the video card shows up twice in hardware detection.
19 Does this have any affect on X Window speed? Here's output from "cat
20 /proc/pci"...
21
22 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] (rev 0).
23 IRQ 5.
24 Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe7ffffff].
25 I/O at 0x9000 [0x90ff].
26 Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe900ffff].
27 Bus 5, device 0, function 1:
28 Display controller: PCI device 1002:5b70 (ATI Technologies Inc) (rev 0).
29 Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9010000 [0xe901ffff].
30
31
32 and here's what "lspci -v" shows...
33
34 0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
35 Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 1b60
36 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
37 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
38 I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
39 Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
40 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
41 Capabilities: [58] #10 [0001]
42 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
43
44 0000:05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
45 Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 1b61
46 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
47 Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
48 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
49 Capabilities: [58] #10 [0001]
50
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52 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>