hi,

after testing many codecs under linux, i found the one i would like to work with it. sadly, XVID is not fully working with gem. using any video player it will work fine (under 7% of my cpu for a 640x480 29.97 fps - mplayer, ffplay, vlc). in gem the cpu usage is over 77% and the video is very slow. i tried to encode with transcode, mencoder and ffmpeg, same result.

i read about this codec and this is what i found:

Xvid http://www.xvid.org is a free software MPEG-4 ASP compliant video codec, which features two pass encoding and full MPEG-4 ASP support, making it a lot more efficient than the well-known DivX codec. It yields very good video quality and good performance due to CPU optimizations for most modern processors.

Note that Xvid is not necessary to decode Xvid-encoded video. |libavcodec| is used by default as it offers better speed.

when playing in mplayer, this is what i get:

Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)

you can test with 2 differents XVID encoding: http://www.workinprogress.ca/pd/gem/xvid.avi http://www.workinprogress.ca/pd/gem/xvidmencoder.avi

patrick