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wangahrah

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From: NJ

Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 3

VLC high cpu usage, after upgrade?

Hey folks-
Recently upgraded to .28-3 kernel from .27-something with nvidia binary drivers 180.18 (beta).  Saw the nvidia binary drivers were now stable at 180.22, and since I was moving to a new kernel, figured I'd need to reinstall them anyway. 

While in kernel .27, I uninstalled the drivers, rebooted, upgraded, rebooted, installed 180.22 drivers.  Things were fine overall, but now playback in VLC results in very high CPU usage.  VLC is set to all default options.  I uninstalled and went back to 180.18 drivers, but CPU usage is still high, get about about 4fps fullscreened. 

I'm running dual 1680x1050 monitors in twinview.  Since rolling back to previous working drivers didn't do anything, I assume its related to something in the kernel upgrade, or VLC itself.  I'm not at that box right now; I'll post more info later, but if anyone has any initial ideas, that'd be great!

wangahrah

wangahrah

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From: NJ

Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 3

Re: VLC high cpu usage, after upgrade?

As an update in case anyone had similar problems, seems it may be a VLC issue; Mplayer has no problems with playback

nGerrit

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From: Aachen [GER]

Registered: 2006-09-27

Posts: 36

Re: VLC high cpu usage, after upgrade?

same problem here. mplayer works fine.
vlc isn't what it used to be since the 0.9 update

wangahrah

Member

From: NJ

Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 3

Re: VLC high cpu usage, after upgrade?

Seems the XVideo playback module isn't showing up and defaulting to slow X11 playback.  I removed VLC from pacman and installed vlc-embeddedvideo from AUR, and XVideo is available again.  I prefer the embedded video anyway, so a double win.

Good luck.