is there a good alternative to totem?

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On 3/15/06, CJ Kelley <debian_i386 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Tristan Wibberley <maihem at maihem.org> wrote:
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>  Tristan Wibberley wrote:
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> > I've just checked, totem with gstreamer 0.10 is just marginally more CPU
> > intensive than mplayer playing the same DVD. I get mplayer using approx
> > 1% less CPU while also decoding audio - gstreamer isn't decoding ac3 in
> > Dapper ATM. I must remember to report a bug.
> >
> > They both use *far* too much CPU with the open source nv video driver
> > under xorg. Both are displaying with XV.
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> On nvidia's driver:
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> With XV, mplayer is using between 3% and 12% CPU depending on the amount
> of motion, while for the same clip, totem is using between 8% and 16% -
> without playing the sound, it is possible that the CPU abuse in totem is
> due to the sound bug.
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> Without XV, mplayer is using between 10% and 17%, and totem is using
> between 28% and 34%. But I couldn't get mplayer to scale the video
> without crashing although totem was using cheap scaling.
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> I'm not sure if totem's extra CPU use should be reported as a bug.
> Anybody else have an opinion on that?
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> ----CJ's reply----
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> I'm not sure if totem's extra CPU use should be reported as a bug.
> I wouldnt report that as a bug (Would you report windows XP being a
> processor hog a bug?). Its just the way that Totem is designed. It requires
> more processor resouces then the other decoders for various reasons.

Design that results in bad performance is definitely bug-worthy. At
least report it as a minor bug. XP is a bug itself :-)