[vlc] Help with H264 performance on Fedora 7

[Frodo Baggins]

On 9/4/07, Petr Hroudny <petr.hroudny at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Fedora7 running on the same computer, VLC can't
> decode and display this clip, while top indicates that the
> whole VLC process runs just on one CPU core:
>
> Cpu(s): 50.8%us,  1.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 46.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.7%si,  0.0%st
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 10405 petr      20   0  240m  95m  26m S  104  4.7   0:13.03 wxvlc

>From this display it looks like top is not showing SMP view. Pressing
'1' toggles SMP view. If you can see a CPU0 somewhere near the top of
the display, you should be all set.

Anyway, did you see the CPU number changing, even after a while? Are
you running a SMP kernel? What does uname -r give you?

Regards,
Frodo B