Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:48:42 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Michael Imor <umji@cs.sunyit.edu> Cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Performance from Linux RealPlayer Message-ID: <199801190548.VAA21211@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:38:19 EST." <199801190143.BAA12385@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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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? > > That sounds about right -- We can however switch resolution on the fly to sort of accomplish the same effect --- see fxtv 8) Cheers, Amancio
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