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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,
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Subject: Re: Poor Performance from Linux RealPlayer
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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?