Re: gmplayer - no good (was Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?)
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:22:33 +1300
Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:45:39AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:20:02 +1300
> > Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:43AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:26 +0200
> > > > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > [..]
> > > > > video player:
> > > >
> > > > [G]mplayer
> > >
> > > You know gmplayer is broken, right? Compare 'top' with both for the same
> > > movie. Note the CPU usage.
> >
> > On a couple of movies I had lying around, I saw several percent higher
> > CPU utilization for gmplayer. i.e. something like 9 - 11% for mplayer,
> > and 12 - 14% for gmplayer. I suppose that that would be a reason to
>
> How long did you watch it for? On the box where I noticed the anomaly,
> it was sitting at 99% whereas "mplayer <samemovie>" sat at around 14%. A
> google search confirmed that gmplayer was the cause. There are other GUI
> frontends but I've never looked at them.
I have not seen anything like this with the files I have tried
(youtube .flv videos mostly).
> Chris.
Celejar
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