[plug] Mplayer runs wild

[Russ Pitman]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 09:18:33PM +0800, Craig Foster wrote:
> Russ Pitman <mailto:rjp at belle.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > John,
> > 
> > Short message until I try more
> > 
> > I installed the nvidia drivers and the sound started working in
> >  gmplayer and it behaves ok not writing to other screens no change in
> > the mplayer mode ??
> > Whatinhell has a video driver to do with sound ?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Russ.
> 
> The nVidia drivers tell Xfree what can be offloaded to the video card
> (possibly, in this case Motion decompression - part of MPEG and DVD).
> I'd also change the sound card to the SB, as the Cmedia cards are
> notoriously CPU intensive.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Craig Foster
> fostware at iinet.net.au (with SMIME)

I switched to a SbLive to check. It needs considerably more amplification 
than the onboard Cmedia which I guess grabs more system memory.

Its ok tho' so it can stay there. 

Thanks,
-- 
Cheers

Russ.