Re: [SLUG] X performance degredation with new video card

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Feb 14 2010 - 10:45:46 EST


On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> Mplayer video is very choppy and I can't adjust playback contrast like
> I could before, but I can still do brightness but it doesn't work as well.
> Overall, skin tones are orange.
>
> I modified the xorg.conf to load the extra modules, but no joy.
>
> top is showing both xorg and mplayer at or near 100%.

I'm guessing mplayer is defaulting to using X commands to show the video,
as in "-vo x11".

Do "mplayer -vo help". Try each in turn (well, skip those you already know
won't help, such as aalib and pcm) a la "mplayer -vo foo filename". Then
put the best one in ~/.mplayer/config as a line

vo_driver=foo

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