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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:14:17
Message-Id: i10rd7$cmd$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU? by Grant
1 On 07/07/2010 05:17 AM, Grant wrote:
2 > I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a
3 > while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm
4 > trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has
5 > actually come a long way since the last time I tried and playing
6 > Blu-Ray rips via mplayer is nearly watchable. I'm using a dual-core
7 > 3.1Ghz CPU and one of the cores is only taxed up to 60% during
8 > playback, but frames are still being dropped constantly. Does anyone
9 > know where the bottleneck might be?
10
11 Not sure. Could be wrong CPU load display; which tool do you use to get
12 the CPU load?
13
14 Anyway, if you're not already doing so, you might want to try the
15 multithreaded version of mplayer so both CPU cores can do decoding.
16 It's in the "multimedia" overlay. More details here:
17
18 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673.html

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU? Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>