Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:54:18 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: Michael Imor <umji@cs.sunyit.edu> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Performance from Linux RealPlayer Message-ID: <19980119005418.44652@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199801190143.BAA12385@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>; from Michael Imor on Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 12:38:19AM -0500 References: <19980118225249.12048@scsn.net> <199801190143.BAA12385@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 12:38:19AM -0500, Michael Imor 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 Really? Is this true of _all_ XF86 servers? It would be nice if someone using the XiG server could report what kind of performance they get from the RealPlayer at high bit-rates/zoomed window... > > 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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