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Hi,

I received my Pi yesterday, and was up and running in about 20 mins (thanks for the awesome tutorials people!).  One quick question though, I ran a test video on mplayer, and whilst it ran "ok", it was nothing like I've seen on some of the demo videos over the last few weeks/months.

What video players are others using to get such good frame rates?  I've done a lot of searching on here (and google), and have found countless threads on what the Pi is capable of, but not a simple answer like "VLC" or "Banshee" or whatever.  Note here that I don't want to run a full media centre per se, just after what program I have seen in the demos (and yes, I've looked *very* carefully to try a ascertain this from the demos, but I can't work it out!).

Thanks,

Pete

mplayer is not GPU accelerated.

The only accelerated media players are xbmc and its command line variant omxplayer.

Check out the OpenELEC thread (a minimal distribution supporting xbmc) for the easiest way of getting xbmc running.

dom said:


mplayer is not GPU accelerated.

The only accelerated media players are xbmc and its command line variant omxplayer.

Check out the OpenELEC thread (a minimal distribution supporting xbmc) for the easiest way of getting xbmc running.


Thank you very much.  I've spent over 3 hours searching this forum (and google) to get this straightforward answer.  I'm sure that this info is here somewhere, but unless one knew the search terms, it was proving a rather fruitless journey...

(awaits countless LMGTFY links...)

Pete

Might be worth you taking a look at the Wiki, finding the right place, and adding the information there, to help future people with the same question.

JamesH said:


Might be worth you taking a look at the Wiki, finding the right place, and adding the information there, to help future people with the same question.


Ok, I'm more than happy to do that.  I'm playing around now, so will update the wiki if I find an easy solution.