22 Apr
2013
22 Apr
'13
12:47 a.m.
Russell Coker wrote:
For the "choppy" movies, what player are you using? If you use mplayer then run it from the command-line and it'll tell you if the CPU is too slow.
Note that it'll also suggest that if, for example, your GPU driver lacks XV support and X is using 30% of the CPU to do the render. In that case getting a better driver might suffice.
One of my systems has an Intel E4600 CPU (2.4GHz dual core) and it plays 1080p movies poorly (drops frames and gives mplayer warnings). Sometimes I use avconv to scale down movies before watching them.
Most of the stuff I "watch", -vo null is even better -- it's just some guy standing in front of a lectern anyway :-)