[ubiq]

I was happily using the smoothvideo branch before it was merged to the linuxport branch and now reverted back to the linuxport branch. I did a clean install and noticed that now my high bitrate material made my dual-core very unevenly loaded. One core could almost be idling with 10% usage while the other core could reach 100% and frames would drop.

I know this is very well known problem but for some reason this workaround fixes this issue for me. I was surprised to see that it wasn't merged from the smoothvideo branch so I manually edited the pthread.c file and made the needed changes and compiled again. Now all my video files play with pretty much even core load and I can use software decoding.

I know that VDPAU has made this problem pretty obsolete but every now and then I come across a file in my library that doesn't work right with VDPAU and at the moment VDPAU isn't so ready that it knows to fall back to software decoding in such cases. Also the ssa/ass embedded subtitles (with attached fonts) are yet not working with VDPAU.

I'm pretty sure that all of you are aware of the workaround found in the smoothvideo branch and I would like to know if it is going to be merged to the linuxport also or is it known to cause problems and that is why it isn't going to be merged? For me it works fine except when using high quality upscaling. That is when the workaround can not produce evenly distributed core load.

ubuntu 8.10 intrepid, up-to-date
svn 20244, manual compile