[MPlayer-users] MPlayer consumes 30% of my Athlon XP 2200! plz help help lower this!
rcooley
rcooley at spamcop.net
Sun Dec 14 18:03:23 CET 2003
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:43:09 +0000
Adam Rice <adamrice at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> You lucky lucky bastard. Since you have a GeForce4, you can compile
> with --enable-xvmc and use the XvMC extension. According to some
> reports, this reduces CPU usage by half. Since you're using system RAM
> for graphics, you may lose somewhat, I don't know.
What's the problem? I got my GeForce4 MX card for under $40
several months ago. I'm sure it's even cheaper now (AGP or PCI). I
haven't gotten around to trying xvmc yet though.
> If I were you, I'd stop using esd. Not because it's particularly CPU
> hungry, but just 'cause it's shit.
I understand the sentiment, but so far there's no real alternative that
I know of. I certainly hope NAS will turn out well, but until then...
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