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>> I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a |
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>> while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm |
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>> trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has |
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>> actually come a long way since the last time I tried and playing |
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>> Blu-Ray rips via mplayer is nearly watchable. I'm using a dual-core |
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>> 3.1Ghz CPU and one of the cores is only taxed up to 60% during |
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>> playback, but frames are still being dropped constantly. Does anyone |
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>> know where the bottleneck might be? |
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> Not sure. Could be wrong CPU load display; which tool do you use to get the |
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> CPU load? |
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I use top. On the mplayer list, people were saying they too get 60% |
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CPU load but no playback problems. |
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> Anyway, if you're not already doing so, you might want to try the |
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> multithreaded version of mplayer so both CPU cores can do decoding. It's in |
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> the "multimedia" overlay. More details here: |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673.html |
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I really don't think it's a CPU issue. What other factors could be at |
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play? Could it be my nouveau video drivers? |
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- Grant |
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