On 07/07/2010 05:17 AM, Grant wrote:
I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has actually come a long way since the last time I tried and playing Blu-Ray rips via mplayer is nearly watchable. I'm using a dual-core 3.1Ghz CPU and one of the cores is only taxed up to 60% during playback, but frames are still being dropped constantly. Does anyone know where the bottleneck might be?
Not sure. Could be wrong CPU load display; which tool do you use to get the CPU load?
Anyway, if you're not already doing so, you might want to try the multithreaded version of mplayer so both CPU cores can do decoding. It's in the "multimedia" overlay. More details here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673.html
