[gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/04/12 17:19, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>
>>>    With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6
>>> (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast
>>> enough to keep up.  E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to
>>> play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer.  On some html5 videos
>>> (Firefox with USE="webm"), The download is actually a touch faster than
>>> the playback, and there's no buffering at all.
>>>
>>>    Some of you may remember my struggles to get my 4-year-old Dell to
>>> eventually display hockey games on NHL GameCenter even at the lowest
>>> available speed using the onboard Intel GPU.  Well, I can play the HD
>>> Youtube videos with the "small player" or "large player", but fullscreen
>>> is hopeless.  The onboard GPU can't keep up.  So I'm looking at getting
>>> a PCI video card.  Any relatively new PCI video card that is supported
>>> by an open-source driver, including hardware acceleration?  Any
>>> experiences, good/bad/so-so?
>>
>>
>> This is a CPU problem, not GPU.  Try to install media-video/smplayer-0.8.0
>> (older versions don't support YouTube), and open the YouTube video link in
>> it.  In the preferences ("performance" section) you can select the quality
>> at which to open the videos.
>
> Yes and no. You can use GPU acceleration for video decoding.

Not with Adobe Flash on an Intel GPU.  His problem is that Flash uses 
way too much CPU, and mplayer (which SMPlayer is using) does not.  It's 
really a CPU problem.