Slowness in compositor

[Andreas Ronnquist]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:22:22 -0200
John Coppens <john at jcoppens.com> wrote:
 
> ... but, when playing video with mplayer, the slowness interferes.
> Opening a movie in a smaller window still runs more or less acceptable,
> but full screen is impossible to watch. I have:
> 
> # NVidia GeForce card with binary driver (latest version)
> # An AMD64 processor at 2.2GHz
> # mplayer set with -vo gl2
>    (-vo xv is worse)
> # xorg 7.4
> 
> I had google look around in the xfce.org site, and found no solution. (A
> similar problem with mplayer was reported, but never answered).
> 
> Any suggestion would be appreciated. Is it possible to disable compositor
> just while viewing video in fullscreen?

I think this is more of an Nvidia problem than an Xfce one. I tried the
latest Nvidia (180 and later), and found it to be slow too (when playing movies at
least), and went back to Nvidia's driver 177.82, and speed was back, so
I doubt this a Xfce problem. (8600gts graphics card, Debian Lenny)


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Andreas Ronnquist <andreas.ronnquist at meritkonsult.se>