I am using the rather old openSUSE 11.0 with no plans of upgrading to 11.3 as of now. My system is also 5+ years with a P4 2.66GHz but with 2.5Gb ram.
HD videos are utilizing 100% cpu and the video also keeps shaking. Neither does any other app work during this time. I cannot even stop the player. I’ve tried mplayer, smplayer, vlc, totem, gnome-player — all with the same result.
But windows XP utilizes about 60% cpu and so no such problems.
I also have ubuntu 7.10 installed and even mplayer here uses 100% cpu.
Also not a troublesome issue but XP has higher volume.
On 2010-10-06 14:36, samrat rao wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I am using the rather old openSUSE 11.0 with no plans of upgrading to
> 11.3 as of now. My system is also 5+ years with a P4 2.66GHz but with
> 2.5Gb ram.
You might try 11.2. At least it has less issues with video.
> HD videos are utilizing 100% cpu and the video also keeps shaking.
> Neither does any other app work during this time. I cannot even stop the
> player. I’ve tried mplayer, smplayer, vlc, totem, gnome-player — all
> with the same result.
What format is that video file? Some need more cpu than others.
What video card do you have?
Are you using the proprietary driver?
> But windows XP utilizes about 60% cpu and so no such problems.
The opensource usually has slower perfomance, and windows uses what we’d call the proprietary driver.
> Also not a troublesome issue but XP has higher volume.
Perhaps the mixer has a control for multiplying level.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I do not have a separate graphics card, just the on board Intel one. The bios says that the IGD is 128mb which is the maximum limit. YaST shows the card as 915G which is the board series.
The sound card chosen is the ICH6 family supported by alsa-1.0.23 which i have.
For example smplayer shows the audio output driver as alsa and video output driver as xv.
Does this info answer your queries? I just thought that since XP plays without difficulty the Linux distros might be having some configuration problem.
On 2010-10-07 18:06, samrat rao wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I do not have a separate graphics card, just the on board Intel one.
> The bios says that the IGD is 128mb which is the maximum limit. YaST
> shows the card as 915G which is the board series.
Ok. So no propietary driver for you.
> Does this info answer your queries? I just thought that since XP plays
> without difficulty the Linux distros might be having some configuration
> problem.
Not necessarily. Linux video drivers are a problem. In the case of Intel they collaborate with
Linux, but nevertheless, the drivers are not the same as in windows.
You might try with 11.2. I have a laptop with Intel video (GM45), which works fine in 11.2, but not
in 11.3, it flickers on 3D. Better try with a live, but I don’t know of a live with multimedia.
Have you tried xine-ui? Get it from packman. It is possible that a player works better than other.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)