Mplayer, Xine, Xvideo lag and video problems in FC5
Okay, this is a very interesting problem.
First off, I have a Voodoo 3 card. Now, in FC4, I had no problems in playing various video formats with the default xvideo driver in Kplayer (this applies to Xine and Mplayer also). The measured CPU usage was approx. 40% with a standard XviD video file. However, when I clean installed FC5 a few days ago, a unique video problem arose. In Kplayer, I first tried to play a video using the X11/XVideo driver. I noticed a spike in CPU usage compared to FC4. That same file was now needing 70% in order to decode. I tried the regular X11 video driver that I was using before...85% CPU usage, and it was lagging that particular video file, while it never lagged with the old distribution. At first, I thought it was an MPlayer issue. So, I installed the latest version of MPlayer. It still had that particular issue. Then, I tried upgrading FFMpeg...still didn't help. I tried other players such as Xine and VLC...same issue. Does someone have any idea what this particular issue is? |
Do you have the same issue outside of X?
Did you try running a movie in console? Perhaps it is the X server, rather the the applications.. Gary |
voodoo3 any reason your holding on to that old card. you can get modern cards for 50 bucks nowdays thats your problem.
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