mplayer, dvd playback and cpu usage

[Andy Green]

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On Saturday 31 July 2004 13:59, Paolo Cavarretta wrote:

> HW is not changed, everything in the system tell me
> that the pc is using hardware acceleration but I think
> this not the case...how can I solve the problem?

Three ideas for 100% CPU:

 - no DMA on DVD player

hdparm -d /dev/hd_

 - no xv

xvinfo

also run mplayer in a terminal and verify it is using xv out.

- - unlikely, but still: cpuspeed has moved your CPU to throttled or divided 
clock.

- -Andy

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