On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> >> wrote: > >> > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard >> > drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of >> > RAM. Running gentoo-sources-3.2.1 as kernel. But it seems playing >> > movies got even worse! >> >> You don't mention anything about video card or video driver setup. >> That's the first thing I would suspect. >> >> What video card? What drivers? Are you using hardware accelerated >> movie playback? > > Sorry. Radeon HD 4250 onboard graphics, using the open source radeon > driver. Hardware acceleration is working fine. As I wrote, it doesn't > matter which quality the videos are. There is not much CPU being used at > all, around 5% to 20%, so this is not the bottleneck. > > Wonko >
I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on. :) For the problem of massive amounts of RAM consumed, that's strange. Are you compiling debug symbols? That can make the RAM usage (in linking especially) explode...
