With VDPAU -benchmark numbers are rather misleading. Try normal playback and give these numbers from the status line: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:52:44PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > V: 208.5 0/ 0 14% 33% 0.0% 0 0 ^^^^^^^ (the first two % numbers). You could also try to compare against the version from SVN.