On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:26:22 +0100 Gerald Dachs vdr@dachsweb.de wrote:
Am Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:03:34 +0000 schrieb Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk:
What graphics card/chip have you got? AFAIK xvmc/xxmc only works on NVidias up to 7x00 and VDPAU is for 8x00 and newer. If your CPU usage dropped significantly with VDPAU it sounds like you didn't actually have xxmc working, just plain xv.
I have an onboard Geforce 8200. CPU usage with xv was 27%, with xxmc 22% and with vdpau 7% max. You could be right that xxmc is in reality xv, because the usage is not very constant, so it could be the same CPU usage. Anyway, before I could use xv without this hick ups.
I'm fairly sure xvmc (which xxmc is based on) isn't supported on Nvidia 8x00 and newer. 20-30% CPU usage isn't much problem, so as you aren't receiving HD anyway I'd stick with stable drivers, ffmpeg and xine etc until VDPAU is known to be stable.