Comment 29 for bug 993397

The beta Nvidia driver available on their website
(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-302.07.run) solved my high CPU usage issues.

Andy

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:45 AM, drabina <email address hidden> wrote:
> @David Bartley
> Disabled 'sync to vBlank' didn't help - still huge CPU usage.
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> Title:
> vdpau not working (well) with Ubuntu12.04 Unity
>
> Status in Compiz:
> Confirmed
> Status in Compiz Core:
> Confirmed
> Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in Unity:
> Confirmed
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> vdpau works very poorly in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on Unity3d. Same 1080p
> movies use around 6-10% of cpu in 11.04 and 11.10 shoots up to 50-60%
> of cpu usage in 12.04 with vdpau and mplayer (all under Unity 3d) . I
> have tried several nvidia drivers and the results are the same (Nvidia
> current 295.40, 295.20 and 295.33 32 bits) Videocard is Nvidia G105M
>
> This seems to be a Unity rather than a Nvidia bug as cpu usage drops
> back to around 6 -10% for same movies in Gnome shell.
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