From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jan 18 21:49:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27627 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:49:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27617 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:49:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21211; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199801190548.VAA21211@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Michael Imor cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Performance from Linux RealPlayer In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:38:19 EST." <199801190143.BAA12385@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:48:42 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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