[Openchrome-users] XAA and fallback

[Mario Rugiero]

2012/4/3 Llu?s Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>

> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 03:05:01PM -0300, Mario Rugiero wrote:
> > Are you sure you are not using xv or xvmc with mplayer? This could affect
> > CPU use, since it uses the GPU for a part of the decoding.
>
> xv for sure. xvmc maybe.
> Do you think it would matter that much? I'm impressed the flash plugin
> works so
> slow then, with that chipset. The computer is built much after youtube
> became
> popular. :)
>
But IIRC flash plugin doesn't use hardware acceleration under Unichrome
cards on Linux, and xv does use your IGP acceleration. So, CPU use will be
less with mplayer for sure, if your driver supports xv.
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