vlc performance troubles

[Tom]

I've got serious performance troubles with vlc (0.2.73) on a machine
that really should have enough power.

data:

vlc 0.2.73
athlon 1.2 ghz, geforce 2
linux 2.4.0
xfree 4.0.3

using xvideo output at 800x600 (fullscreen)

after some time of playing, video gets choppy, sound lags behind and
has a pretty bad quality. vmstat reveals that vlc is using 90-95% of
the cpu.
my guess is that xvideo doesn't use hardware acceleration. is that
correct? if so, I guess given that even on a high-end machine it can't
play a dvd in viewable quality, it should display a big, red warning.


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