if you have an nvidia card then i don't see a reason why you

would want

to "escape using openGL" - that's the thing where your card

is good at.

if you don't want to use it, you should have bought a

cheaper card.

The reason is that I'm using PD only to synchronise the screening of 4 streams on 4 computers with no particular processing for which openGL would have been definitely usefull. Since the bitrate of my QT files are quite big, I believed it would be faster to play it directly through xv. Maybe I'm wrong ? I have managed to convince the technical staff to install 4 linux for my artwork, these are not my pc but university's one. It's already quite a performance to introduce Linux in a Hong Kong's institution, believe me. I have written a paper about OSS and it's the first time i'm actually using it for an artwork (newbees Linux and PD...). And it does make sense to me as an "artist" to developp my work under Open Source OS and software (I guess that's the case of everybody here), but now I need to make it work ;)

if you are not afraid of using proprietary software, then i

strongly

suggest getting nvidia's drivers (not just the opensource

replacement

"nv"): the performance is far(!) better (but it's not as

correct in a

political way)

I've installed the driver already. Still the same problem. cf answer to Yves D.

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