[ltp] Re: DVD cpu usage

[Daniel Pittman]

On 14 Sep 2004, Tino Keitel wrote:
> 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.

I think you mean '-vo xv' to force it to use the video overlay; 
'-vo x11' does not use hardware accelerated colour space conversion or
scaling.

        Daniel
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