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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:38:19 -0500
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From: Michael Imor <umji@cs.sunyit.edu>
Subject: Re: Poor Performance from Linux RealPlayer
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I believe its because XFree86 doesn't use the scaling hardware on the video
card so the CPU has to do all the scaling.

Mike

At 10:52 PM 1/18/98 -0500, Donald J. Maddox wrote:
>I find that performance of the Linux RealPlayer is pretty atrocious
>on high-bit-rate streams...  With the W95 version, I can play a
>100Kbps stream zoomed to full screen with no problems, but the
>Linux version chokes to death on a 100K stream if you try to
>zoom the window :-(
>
>Anybody know if the performance is this bad under Linux?
>