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 1SHbmj-0007Zc-1s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:11:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B6B4E0B57; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82559E0AD8 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7F61B4002 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:09:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.472 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.472 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.462, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DETXtUCtItc4 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64A631B4009 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SHbkh-00038O-Ge for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:08:59 +0200 Received: from athedsl-356019.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.246.81]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:08:59 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-356019.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:08:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers? Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:08:32 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120410112621.GA10304@waltdnes.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-356019.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120330 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120410112621.GA10304@waltdnes.org> X-Archives-Salt: f25567c0-045a-4bb6-9292-42f909221872 X-Archives-Hash: 51647969cb6b9d56688b733a795d7c60 On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote: > With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 > (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast > enough to keep up. E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to > play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer. On some html5 videos > (Firefox with USE="webm"), The download is actually a touch faster than > the playback, and there's no buffering at all. > > Some of you may remember my struggles to get my 4-year-old Dell to > eventually display hockey games on NHL GameCenter even at the lowest > available speed using the onboard Intel GPU. Well, I can play the HD > Youtube videos with the "small player" or "large player", but fullscreen > is hopeless. The onboard GPU can't keep up. So I'm looking at getting > a PCI video card. Any relatively new PCI video card that is supported > by an open-source driver, including hardware acceleration? Any > experiences, good/bad/so-so? This is a CPU problem, not GPU. Try to install media-video/smplayer-0.8.0 (older versions don't support YouTube), and open the YouTube video link in it. In the preferences ("performance" section) you can select the quality at which to open the videos.