I have the same problem: After upgrade to 12.04 mplayer uses 20-40% instead of 2-5% CPU on older version 11.04 of ubuntu. Also mplayer plays movie not so smoothly like previously.
NVIDIA Geforce 9600, Core2Duo 2.33 GHz. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993397 Title: vdpau not working (well) with Ubuntu12.04 Unity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/993397/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
