Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 01:01:53 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Michael Imor <umji@cs.sunyit.edu>, dmaddox@scsn.net, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Performance from Linux RealPlayer Message-ID: <19980119010153.40364@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199801190548.VAA21211@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 09:48:42PM -0800 References: <199801190143.BAA12385@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> <199801190548.VAA21211@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 09:48:42PM -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > 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? > > > > > That sounds about right -- We can however switch resolution on the fly > to sort of accomplish the same effect --- see fxtv 8) > > Cheers, > Amancio > Yeah, I've been usinng CTL-ALT-+ to 'simulate' zooming, but it sure would be nice to be able to play RealVideo fullscreen like I can in W95... Oh, well. Anybody have any experience running the RealPlayer with the XiG servers?
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