You can also try playing around with framedropping as an mplayer option. this will also help narrow down to see if this is a video driver issue or something else.<br><br>PS: I give alot of mplayer references even though you are using xine just because that is what I am more familar with.
<br>--James<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 21, 2007 2:53 PM, James Gutshall Jr <<a href="mailto:warchildx@gmail.com">warchildx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
102% is only with salesmen, and linux. not PC's in general (I think). ;-)<br><br>can you try to use the xv driver for video out instead of xvmc? <br>mplayers usage: -vo xv<br>I am unsure of xine's syntax<br><br>Also in order to use the xv driver, what driver is your xorg using? nvidia binary driver, etc. essentially you are trying to make the player use the gpu processor instead of offloading everything to cpu.
<br><font color="#888888">--James</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 21, 2007 9:36 AM, lanas <<a href="mailto:lanas@securenet.net" target="_blank">lanas@securenet.net</a>
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On Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 16:48:56 -0500,<br><div>"James Gutshall Jr" <<a href="mailto:warchildx@gmail.com" target="_blank">warchildx@gmail.com</a>> wrote :<br><br></div><div>> 1) I would verify cpu usage during playback. (remote ssh using top,
<br>> etc). See if cpu usage is high.<br><br></div>For iso video files ripped by Myth, xine CPU use hovers around 65%. For<br>mpeg files it hits a steady 102%. Only with computers (and salesmen)<br>would you find something over the hundred percent I guess ;-)
<br><br>Since I've never ran benchmarks on that I don't know if these cpu<br>usages are OK or not.<br><br>Are the TV settings 'Standard, libmpeg, xvmc' important in this case ?<br>It seems the images are flowing smoother with Standard or xvmc.
<br><div><br>> 2) see if xine has a video out you can specify. (options are in<br>> database, or configured via mythweb, or via frontend - specific to<br>> each frontend).<br><br></div>I tried -V xmvc (in conjunction with the TV setting) but that did not
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