• Registered: 2009-09-19
  • Posts: 108

Topic: Mplayer on framebuffer - high CPU usage

I managed to play video files using mplayer without starting X.

The command i use is:

mplayer -vo fbdev2 -fs -zoom -xy 1024 -really-quiet pathtofile

I put an alias in .bashrc to make it faster to use. I also made a script that invokes clive (a really good cli app) for youtube videos and another one to stream files from my ftp server.

I noticed that when i play videos that way the cpu usage is quite high (25/28%). The video playback of the same file is much lighter if i start mplayer inside a x session (5/6%).

Is there a way to lower the cpu usage when the file is played on the framebuffer?

Probably this is the only step away from switching to a completely console-based system big_smile

I'd like to start X only when i call my girlfriend with skype.

Thanks.

Last edited by ErSandro (2010-08-04 12:01:33)