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From: Paul Sobey <buddha@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:33:09
Message-Id: 200801281033.04466.buddha@the-annexe.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback by Mike Mazur
1 On Monday 28 January 2008 00:39:51 Mike Mazur wrote:
2 > In my case, vo=gl2, vo=gl and vo=x11 all behave the same, with regular
3 > pauses. xv is not listed when I type `mplayer -vo help`.
4 >
5 > So doesn't this indicate that it's perhaps not mplayer itself causing
6 > trouble, but rather something system-wide instead? Especially since
7 > this regular pause also occurs while I type in text fields in Firefox.
8
9 Hello,
10
11 I had exactly the same kind of problem and recompiled mplayer with the xv use
12 flag, then used vo=xv, in fact it defaults to it on my system. CPU usage then
13 came right down. I have an older nvidia card than you so I hope you also see
14 a benefit!
15
16 Yours,
17 Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com>