[ltp] DVD cpu usage

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:34:11 -0400, Joan Roig Amorós wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I reinstalled debian into my T40, this time using the Debian-installer (my 
> first install was from Knoppix). The only problem was a first try with the 
> 2.4 kernel option: I ended up with a scrambled display; no problem with 2.6, 
> don't know why. Besides that, everything worked fine. 
> 
> I am pretty happy with my new system, but I noticed that now playing DVDs 
> takes >50% of cpu usage, up to 70% with Kaffeine/xine (it used to be ~10%). 
> Now I cannot watch movies when in battery power. 
> 
> Anybody can give me a clue about this? I have tried mplayer, vlc and xine. I 
> use the same XFree configuration that I used previously, XFree radeon module 

Try mplayer -vo x11 to force it to use video overlay.

Regards,
Tino