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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:25:06
Message-Id: CAEH5T2MTHHhKUueLH-KZEJtMd9UFsJa9Y-oeCZb-npzvjzFk1Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs by Alex Schuster
1 On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core
3 > had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was
4 > mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running
5 > KDE4.
6 >
7 > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard
8 > drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of
9 > RAM. Running gentoo-sources-3.2.1 as kernel. But it seems playing movies
10 > got even worse!
11
12 You don't mention anything about video card or video driver setup.
13 That's the first thing I would suspect.
14
15 What video card? What drivers? Are you using hardware accelerated
16 movie playback?

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Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>