Re: high cpu load with gnome-shell and a window that shows TV

[Gerald Dachs <gda gmx de>]

Thanks for your lightning fast answer.

Am 2012-04-12 16:49, schrieb Alessandro Crismani:
> Il giorno gio, 12/04/2012 alle 16.43 +0200, Gerald Dachs ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > There is only one big problem. If I start the TV front end on my 
> > atom
> > based test machine I get %35 CPU load from gnome-shell only.
> > Starting another front end like XBMC I get additional %35. The video
> > decoding is made by the GPU using VDPAU. So the CPU has not much to 
> > do,
> > but this heavy load is too much for the CPU and I get frame drops.
> >
> > Before gnome-shell I used openbox. Openbox needs less than %1.
>
> Could it be this bug?
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640314

Look like this is the problem, sigh. Currently there seems to be no 
simple way
to get transparency without tearing.

> It would be nice if you could add some info there. Particularly, does
> the CPU percentage change if you resize the window displaying the 
> video
> stream?

Yes I will try to do it in the evening, but there seems to be not much 
hope to get
this working.

Gerald