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Howdy, |
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As some know, I recently bought a video card. While not the most modern |
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thing, it is a lot faster than my old one. I have a question tho. When |
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I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high resolution or a |
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medium resolution, it seems to use a good bit of CPU power. I notice in |
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gkrellm, htop etc that it is using about 20 to sometimes 40 or 50% of |
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CPU power. Yes, I still have the 8 core CPU in here. In Smplayer, I |
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have video driver set to "gl(fast)" but have tried other settings as |
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well. Obviously, some just plain don't work at all. It causes Smplayer |
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to crash. I did some googling, I think this is the best driver setting |
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for my card. It is nvidia based. Question, how do I know it is using |
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the video card to process as much of the video as it is supposed to be |
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doing? Is there some command I'm not aware of to test this? Here is |
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some hardware info. |
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root@fireball / # lspci -k |
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX |
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650] (rev a1) |
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Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK107 |
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[GeForce GTX 650] |
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Kernel driver in use: nvidia |
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Kernel modules: nvidia_drm, nvidia |
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root@fireball / # glxinfo |
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name of display: :0 |
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display: :0 screen: 0 |
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direct rendering: Yes |
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server glx vendor string: SGI |
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server glx version string: 1.4 |
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This is what I get with glxgears at full screen. Note, video is playing |
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on the TV as well, just not on current screen. |
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root@fireball / # glxgears |
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311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.133 FPS |
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306 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.123 FPS |
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311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.154 FPS |
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312 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.217 FPS |
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309 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.619 FPS |
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307 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.265 FPS |
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315 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.936 FPS |
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XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" |
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after 13277 requests (13277 known processed) with 0 events remaining. |
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root@fireball / # |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |