Composite [enable] -> playing video (mplayer) not an option

[jakubc]

Hello all,

so finally i took the pluge to seeing some eye-candy on my XFCE 4.2.3.2. I cannot really see a difference in any application being slower than it was before enabling composite, exept video playback.

When playing video in fullscreen mode it gets *very* choppy. The interesting thing is that when playing in a window no choppyness can be seen. I have checked CPU usage with "top" I see X eating up all the CPU resources (99%). What's the deal here?

My Config is:
Pentium 4 Northwood 2.6GHz HT CPU
Geforce4 MX 440 AGPx8 64MB VGA
1 GB RAM

While not completely up to date I would say this should hold up it's own in playing back videos:

[lhach]

Which video out (-vo) method are you using?

Try `mplayer -vo x11 your.file` to see if playback is better.

[EDIT]
Woops... `mplayer -vo x11 -zoom your.file` for full screen.
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