Video Playback Choppy

[Calvin Spealman]

Stefan Gehn wrote:
> see if "xdpyinfo | grep XV" yields a line reading "XVideo", that extension
> is needed for fast video overlays (instead of copying all the pixels onto
> the screen, that takes ages). If it's not there then copying the image
> onto the screen is taking most of the cpu and that can cause choppieness
> of both video and audio.

Also, I can watch smaller videos at fullscreen, so the actually rendering is
not the bottleneck, it might actually be the decoding.