openSUSE slower than Windows 7 in 3D and x264 play?

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#1

Hi,

I’m using openSUSE 11.2 64bit in Dell E6400 with Intel video chipset. I can play x264 720p files without any problems in Windows 7, but in openSUSE, I could play it in Totem, but it is very slow (lots of stopping).

In addition, in songbird, if I use the mediaflow add-on,the scroll becomes really sluggish.

In general, I feel like openSUSE is showing less ram usage but higher CPU usage than Windows 7. Is my video card driver is messed up? I really like openSUSE a lot but so it is disappointing …

Thank you,
Joon

#2

Did you follow this:
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

In a terminal do this and it will tell us about your video card

/sbin/lspci -nnk
#3

Thank you for the reply. I will try to follow the thread tomorrow morning.

The following is the result:

joon@linux-3393:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0233]
	Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0233]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0233]
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f5] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0233]
	Kernel driver in use: e1000e
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0233]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
#4

You have the same intel chip as me on my G550
Mine works perfectly out of the box.

Totem is a rubbish player. Use gnome-mplayer, it will get installed anyway if you install gecko-mediaplayer for Firefox media playback.
smplayer
vlc

are also fine.

#5

I have replaced everything except libdvdcss by ones as Packman repository as described in Check your multimedia problem in ten steps, and now it works great!

Thank you so much!!

Oh by the way, would you mind telling me why I’m not supposed to use VideoLAN repository?

#6

Because Packman and VideoLan package some of the same packages, mixing the two will cause conflicts. Packman supplies VLC Player and much more. So stick with Packman.

#7

Good to know it works better now;)
Thanks for letting us know.