[Openchrome-users] XAA and fallback

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 08:50:50PM -0300, Mario Rugiero wrote:
> 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.

Ok, so it is a case where the flash plugin uses one of the slowest paths
possible to display a video. Is it?

Regards,
Llu?s.