Use Mplayer With Hardware Acceleration In Ubuntu 10.04 And 10.10 [Nvidia]

Posted by hotice on Oct 18, 2010 8:03 PM EDT
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Using Mplayer without vdpau to play an HD video (H.264 - 720p used for this test), I had a 24-52% CPU usage while using Mplayer with vdpau, the CPU usage decreased to 0%! This may not be the case for everyone, but you should still see a huge improvement in playing HD videos.

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