[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD playing

[Steve Stavropoulos]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Attila Kinali wrote:

> That sounds interesting.... mga_vid and Xv use basicaly the same
> system. The only diff is, that Xv behaves more nice to other
> X related stuff (restoring registers, not overwriting used memory and such)
>

 THAT is what I thought and I didn't give a try to mga_vid for a long
time. When I did (just for fun), I saw a 15-20% decrease in video out CPU
Usage!!! That video out CPU Usage was giving me the problems and to lower
it I had to switch to lower resolution && depth. That trick would give me
the 10% more CPU that I wanted to play the DVD. BUT, mplayer with mga_vid
frees me 15-20% of my CPU.
 video out cpu usage for DVD playback is 0% for mga_vid, versus 15-20%
for Xv! (i think the decoding CPU usage is getting about 1% more with
mga_vid, but I'm not sure).

 As for the nice behaviour of Xv, I see mga_vid behave equally nicely :)