enabling cube effect

Les Gray lgray at bigpond.net.au
Mon Jul 23 14:27:20 BST 2007


On Monday 23 July 2007 23:15:25 Daniel Moore wrote:
> To get around the choppy video issue I installed VLC media player and
> in Settings > Preferences, Expand Video, select Output modules, check
> Advanced Options and from the dropdown menu select X11 video output.
>
> No more choppy video with Beryl/Compiz Desktop Effects enabled!
>

Thanks, but I already knew about using X11. That works for lower-res videos 
and small things like Flash etc., but it's no good for HDTV. You need a 
driver which will enable hardware decoding for that, and if you're using an 
nvidia video card, xxmc is what you need to use.



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