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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:46:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121219104625.2d8a3e1e@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50D112CA.3070506@gmail.com>

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:05:14 -0600
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> This may help, may not.  When I was playing with this a year or so
> ago, I found a HD test video on the internet somewhere.  I'm pretty
> sure it was 1080p.  I set smplayer to play and repeat the video and
> then I watched the CPU and temps on the video card.  I would try each
> setting and see how much CPU load there was and watched the temps on
> the video card.  I figure if the card temps are warmer, it is giving
> the card a work out instead of my CPU. 

Personally I use a local Bluray 1080p rip of Transformers3 for that.

I figure if the scene with Optimus and Sentinel bashing hunks off each
other doesn't give a GPU a decent work-out, then nothing will....

and it's a fun movie, much more interesting to watch than temp guages

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-19  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-18 23:20 [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings Walter Dnes
2012-12-19  1:05 ` Dale
2012-12-19  1:13   ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-19  1:38     ` Dale
2012-12-19  4:29       ` [gentoo-user] " Bruce Hill
2012-12-19 10:21         ` Dale
2012-12-24 11:14       ` Nuno J. Silva
2012-12-24 12:44         ` Dale
2012-12-19  8:46   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-12-19 14:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2012-12-19 22:35   ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-24 11:21   ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno J. Silva
2012-12-24 14:25   ` Bruce Hill

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