[ltp] Re: DVD cpu usage

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 23:11:44 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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; 

Argl, yes. :-)

Usually xv causes problems and x11 solves them, that's why I write x11.
:-)

Regards,
Tino