Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 22:25:58 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: Michael Imor <umji@cs.sunyit.edu>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Performance from Linux RealPlayer Message-ID: <199801190625.WAA21362@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 1998 01:01:53 EST." <19980119010153.40364@scsn.net>
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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. Again, fxtv accomplish the same by just pressing space on the display window and it does fill the entire screen very nicely and 30 frames/sec of course 8) > Anybody have any experience running the RealPlayer with the XiG servers? > Actually, it probably does not take that much effort to support scaling and yuv -> rgb in the Xserver -- all it is required is the will of someone to do it. If you have a *pentium pro* or a *pentium II* you can increase significantly your thruput, 20MB/sec to 90MB/sec. ftp://ftp.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/pub/systems/FreeBSD/lkoeller/fastvid.tar.gz In the case of the real player this ought to increase its thruput. Cheers, Amancio
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