Re: mplayer tip

2010-12-27 Thread Ted Unangst
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Travis King wrote: > That's incredible. I was reading some threads(albeit from some Linux > distro mailing list) from 2008 about a 2Ghz Core2Duo with some Intel > GPU on a R61(a machine I recently bought) being too slow for 1080 > resolutions with mplayer in any s

Re: mplayer tip

2010-12-26 Thread Travis King
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:54:24 -0500 Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Travis King > wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:46:36 -0500 > > Ted Unangst wrote: > > > >> Contrary to the mplayer documentation, the gl video output driver > >> may work better than xv, at least for some

Re: mplayer tip

2010-12-26 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Travis King wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:46:36 -0500 > Ted Unangst wrote: > >> Contrary to the mplayer documentation, the gl video output driver may >> work better than xv, at least for some systems, in at least two ways. >> >> Playing a large video (1080p), x

Re: mplayer tip

2010-12-26 Thread Travis King
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:46:36 -0500 Ted Unangst wrote: > Contrary to the mplayer documentation, the gl video output driver may > work better than xv, at least for some systems, in at least two ways. > > Playing a large video (1080p), xv can't keep up, and the video falls > behind audio. With gl,

Re: mplayer tip

2010-12-24 Thread Dan Harnett
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:46:36PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > This is a laptop with intel video, other systems may be different, but > if you're having any trouble with mplayer video, the gl driver is > worth trying. I used to notice a lot of tearing on Intel X3100 chipsets (GM965). I don't see

mplayer tip

2010-12-24 Thread Ted Unangst
Contrary to the mplayer documentation, the gl video output driver may work better than xv, at least for some systems, in at least two ways. Playing a large video (1080p), xv can't keep up, and the video falls behind audio. With gl, works great. Even with xv, CPU is considerably less than 100%, s