Il 30/11/2011 17:08, Nicola Pandini ha scritto:
Hi list! I'm trying to use an old laptop with a Celeron 2,6Ghz to playback some videos with a basic GEM chain (pix_film, pix_gain, pix_texture), but the performances are very poor. It's only due to the crappy celeron :-) ? What are the minimum requirements to play a video with GEM? Is there any optimization possible, like using videos encoded with a lighter video codec, or something like this? I'm using Debian with open video drivers (ATI dropped the support for the laptop's video card).
Thanks!
Thank you for all your advices. Yesterday I tried to playback different codecs and formats. With a mjpeg I had 60-70% of CPU load; Previously I tested a mpeg-2 and the CPU load went to 90%. In both situation the speed of the video playback was slower than normal, even changing the fps of GEM. I tested the patch on another laptop (core2duo with Debian) and the video playback ran smooth with ATI proprietary drivers (fglrx) but it ran slow with open drivers, so I think it's only a video driver problem.