>> 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?
I use top. On the mplayer list, people were saying they too get 60% CPU load but no playback problems. > 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 I really don't think it's a CPU issue. What other factors could be at play? Could it be my nouveau video drivers? - Grant
