[Kwintv] Re: kdenonbeta/kwintv3/qtvision/plugins/video/v4l

Dirk Ziegelmeier dziegel at gmx.de
Thu Jan 8 09:37:39 CET 2004


On Thursday 08 January 2004 01:08, George Staikos wrote:
>    You know, the last time I tested I found that XV was faster than XVSHM.
> Perhaps it was implementation flaws that have since been fixed, or perhaps
> I had a weird X server or weird hardware, but it could be true that XVSHM
> isn't all that great.  How does it perform for you?
For me, XvSHM frees up about 5% CPU time compared to Xv, and it sounds 
reasonable to assume that it's faster, so I leave it as it is. It may be 
wrong for some setups, but it should not be in the general case.

Dirk


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