From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SRrI4-0007CN-UO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 20:45:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E6F8E0716; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F9BE06F7 for ; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenq5 with SMTP id q5so2702953yen.40 for ; Tue, 08 May 2012 13:43:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KYxjbYp9IXC3OOf/Xl+LS49bR6RqOXtxjz6pB5CQVtg=; b=t0jyRyhQPXusH6EYriit3CSMiv5cEId2HMUh1rxpeTOZCE3ZmAXL9fivPG4jeL35Ok DyOboinlTA0iGfI7efULXG+xhk+UuE5GFJq3aehS5oaZX9LP09LNrTv5xVeh+wUZv1/J DnSfP0Xnn4KK63qIaF3r1gmZkFUQLqEp2G89tHnGXELiyOoe7Tm93g48ERwaTVPm4Kzq x161A0SnKMkTCDaGqDB0tdiwAjwoOHY5tlDjy3CtFbuIvd4RGZ/1Z/pB0ysfVfNmVdcP nqQ8kr0sL3boV3fTxTRx3HyvqUaS7sm++GjVyn1Eo1QrIe06Ft04MUXMXLfWlsqkUokM dWNA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.136.202 with SMTP id v10mr10815226ict.32.1336509835913; Tue, 08 May 2012 13:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.3.67 with HTTP; Tue, 8 May 2012 13:43:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FA833F9.5030409@gmail.com> References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218180407.74055f5e@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218220521.1278e023@bluewin.ch> <1705219.vsiCQe2Sr8@weird> <20120507144134.4ea24fc3@weird.wonkology.org> <4FA833F9.5030409@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:43:55 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs From: Simon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a4a8acaa-1734-46c0-bbd2-d474793ca0f1 X-Archives-Hash: 7fb3b9d27f15b06854f626912c0f3b31 > Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix > was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and > such. =A0May be worth thinking about at least. Video playback and CPU optimisations go hand in hand. One video I have had for a long time, I could never play it at all on any of my computers and I could not beleive what I saw next... I got a new PC and thought to give it a try. It worked painfully, skipping and using 100% of one of my CPU cores. I was sad and thought this video might have been corrupt. After a wave of cleanup, I had removed all CPU optimisation flags from my make.conf (I was originally negating many, like -sse, etc, so I left it "to my profile" to choose what was needed) and recompiled everything. After that, the same movie played in the best quality I had ever seen and CPU usage was below 5% !!!! I was even able to open 12 movies (4x3) all playing at the same time (this was unthinkable before I optimized my system). Anyway, keep in mind that my particular starting scenario was that I had "un-optimized" it long ago! Good luck!