Claude Jones wrote: > on checking, I found some elements of Xine installed, but not Xine itself. Hmm, I had xine installed but when I uninstalled it miro still seemed to work. > I'm running an nVidia card with the nVidia > drivers, and the results are stunning on the one video I just watched, a > little 'Hubblecast' from NASA/ESA on the Hubble telescope images from a > SuperNova On second look, the problem is not my video card/driver. True, high-def videos are tough on vesa (I'm looking forward to a new computer with a good Intel graphics card with a FOSS driver), but I was experiencing massive slowdowns playing videos in Miro. And thinking back videos from the same channel (so not a resolution issue) played fine in miro before. The videos still play outside of miro, which indicates either: a. Miro is slowing it down by background activities (e.g. checking channels, downloading videos). b. Bug in miro/xine lib. I just took some steps to alleviate problem a. 1. Limit downloads to 3 at once. 2. Disable automatic downloads on all channels (may selectively reenable later). 3. Specify manual checking for channel updates But miro's still so slow it's unusable (I have to force quit) when videos are playing, so I don't think that's it. Again, I can play the videos in mplayer or xine (except if you quit xine while certain videos are playing it crashes X). Matt Flaschen
