Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2019-01-12, at 00:00, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> As some know, I recently bought a video card. While not the most modern >> thing, it is a lot faster than my old one. I have a question tho. When >> I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high resolution or a >> medium resolution, it seems to use a good bit of CPU power. I notice in >> gkrellm, htop etc that it is using about 20 to sometimes 40 or 50% of >> CPU power. Yes, I still have the 8 core CPU in here. In Smplayer, I >> have video driver set to "gl(fast)" but have tried other settings as >> well. Obviously, some just plain don't work at all. It causes Smplayer >> to crash. I did some googling, I think this is the best driver setting >> for my card. It is nvidia based. > It's not the best setting. You should avoid SMPlayer (IMHO from my experience > at this point) and switch to mpv or VLC. You want to enable hardware decoding > with VDPAU with any player. That card can decode H.264 fully and partially > can decode MPEG-1/2/VC-1. You will see very little CPU usage with VDPAU > enabled. The downside is the inability to use software-based filters in > real-time, but there is a built-in hardware deinterlacer that significantly > beats filters like Yadif. >
Just for giggles, I used VLC for a bit to play a video. It has a fair resolution and is a .mp4. It uses about the same amount of CPU power as Smplayer. I can't tell any difference even with the same video. It appears that it may be something besides the player. I did find some settings tho. I also figured out how to tell it to send sound to the TV. Progress. ;-) Any other ideas? Something just don't seem to be working right here. Dale :-) :-)
