Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:38:19 -0500 From: Michael Imor <umji@cs.sunyit.edu> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Performance from Linux RealPlayer Message-ID: <199801190143.BAA12385@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980118225249.12048@scsn.net>
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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? >
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