Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:38:56 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Erich Zigler <erichz@superhero.org> Cc: John Utz <john@utzweb.net>, t6nu <chain@daemon.bsd.ee>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Choppy picture with Sawfish+GNOME and fxtv Message-ID: <3BF13E90.B1C0039A@mitre.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111101242530.22275-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> <3BF12F30.F4171C10@mitre.org> <20011113092036.A1400@cerebro.superhero.org>
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Erich Zigler wrote: > > On Tue 13 Nov 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: > > > I wondier if this is due to Gnome's "desktop management" stuff. > > It may be seeing the XFree window over the desktop and doing something > > strange. If you run XFree with TWM and then cover up the fxtv window > > partially do you get the same choppyness? > > Yes. The same choppiness. However I can play avi's and mpeg's with mplayer > just fine and without any issues. Mplayer uses the xv extension. It's completely different from fxtv. You might try simpleplayer (search the archive for the link), which is a demonstration of using the xv extension with the 8x8 cards. It's not really a full program, but certainly good enough for testing. I had a somewhat similar problem a couple of years ago with the SGI Magic Desktop and Windowmaker. It turns out that if the desktop was running (actually the filemanager) and drawing icons on the desktop (similar to MS desktop icons like My computer) the machine would grind to a halt on any furious video updates (like playing movies, resizing windows with the "technical drawing like" size indicators , running gnuplot, etc...). It turns out the desktop icons were redrawing on every screen update and consuming an enormous amount of CPU time. I eventually shut down the filemanger and the system sped right back up. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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