#41 video playback slow

[simon1tan]

I got xorg, ssh server, firefox, flashplugin installed on the guest. Using the dummy driver and running Xming on WIndows XP SP3 host. Firefox is running but the video is very choppy, getting 10fps. I'm running host to guest through a dedicated TAP connection with another eth for internet connection. Any ideas on speeding up video playback? use different driver?

[simon1tan]

when I say dummy driver, I mean xserver-xorg-video-dummy configured in xorg.conf

[simon1tan]

Or should I use CyWin, VNC, NX? How do I find out what is causing the slowness?

[David Rorex]

To me it sounds like nothing is wrong. 10fps video from a plugin inside a browser over a remote X11 link sounds great. (yes the two machines are on the same physical PC, but it's still a remote connection all the video data has to be funneled across, with zero hardware acceleration)performance to me.

[simon1tan]

Ok, I got sound through pulse audio. Sound is good. Just tried compression through putty. Still bad framerate.

I'm wrong with my initial post. Youtube showes:
video is 640x351, 551kbps
10 stage fps, 2 to 4 fps, 3000 drops, 0kbps software video rendering

[simon1tan]

Anybody have any luck with LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:XCoLinux
I just tried it, no go :(