[MPlayer-users] performance vs. wm, or gnome?

[Brian Craft]

Continuing my search for video performance problems in rh8.0, I just found that
if I create a minimal .xinitrc with an xterm and sawfish, I can play back full
frame rate dvd with mplayer or gmplayer.

Anyone know how metacity, nautilus, gnome-session, etc., might be affecting
this?

The machine is still struggling more than it should, but at least it's
basically working. I also tried running the xf86 4.1.0 server from rh7.1 to see
if that had any effect, and ran x11perf against it. Notably, the 4.1.0 server
(rh7.1 binaries) running on rh8.0 scores the same as the 4.2.0 server --
significantly slower than the same server running on rh7.1. So something else
has changed to cause the slow-down. glibc?

b.c.