[MPlayer-users] minimal CPU requirement to play high bitrate 1080p video in software?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:45:14AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > Thats said, -vo xv and -vo gl look about the same to me and seem to take the
> > same amount of CPU.
> > Is -vo gl better somehow?
> 
> It has a lot more features. That may or may not matter for you.
> It does display the OSD and subtitles at full screen resolution instead
> of just the video resolution for example.
> It also is slightly more likely to have working vsync on a secondary
> display.
> Probably lots of small stuff I don't remember right now.

I wanted to thank you for that code.
I just switched from xv to gl on my mythtv, and I can now adjust colors,
tint, and brightness, and the tearing problems I had are gone.

Thanks,
Marc
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