[MPlayer-users] Very slow play with gl default

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 02/27/2010 10:24 AM, Etienne Buira wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 06:15:41PM +0100, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:10:05 +0100
>> Etienne Buira <etienne.buira.lists at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:57:37PM +0100, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:53:47 +0100
>>>> Etienne Buira <etienne.buira.lists at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>>>>
>>>> There you have it!
>>>
>>> Yes, but at around 1fps...
>>
>> No, it means that either you have badly configured libGL, or it doesn't
>> support your card because it does all the processing in CPU.
> 
> I think it does not support my card (lspci tells it is a "G98 [GeForce
> 8400 GS]"), and nvidia proprietary drivers do not work with xen (which I use).
> 
> But if it is CPU only, how can the performance be so different between
> x11 (mplayer taking around 20% CPU) and gl/gl2 (mplayer's CPU use >90%)?
> 
> Well, going back to x11 for now.

All you need to do is add vo=x11 to your $HOME/.mplayer/config file or
/etc/mplayer.conf (think that is the right file) and it will default to XV.

Kevin



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