Re: [gentoo-user] Loss of performance...OpenGL?

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> [09-01-11 19:11]:
> On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> > But may be my experience is to old in this special case.
> >
> > By the way:
> > xv is a lot of [CENSORED] with my NVIDIA card. I had a lot of trouble
> > to find a way to regulate brightness and such on a per application
> > basis. The only way I found (which by no means is to be read as
> > "there is no other way than..." ;) was to switch the xine
> > video interface of kaffeine from xv to xshm.
> >
> > May be there is another chance in this corner of the problem to improve
> > all this?
> >
> > Suggestions are welcome :)
> > Very welcome.... :O)
> 
> well xshm does create a lot of load, there is not much you can do about it. 
> You could try other ways like sdl, ogl or xvmc. But why not just use xv? It 
> works well with tvtime - and you can change the brightness or contrast - on a 
> per channel basis. Hmpf, tvtime will not work.. so kaffeine it is. .... 
> 

ehhh...sorry...I didnt understand. It seems to me that the first part
of your mail states, that xv (which is a problem for nvidia cards like
mine as much as I can say and nof the apllikation ... ) will work with
tvtime and the second part states the opposite...

help me please, I am older than 20... ;)

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