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DV File CPU Usage?

Jonathan Thomas-3
I noticed that the gstreamer framework seems to take all my CPU when trying to view a 32 MB DV file (which I captured from my mini-dv camcorder).  I am using Python to load the DV file and play it.  My computer is a Pentium 4 with a 1.8 GHz CPU and 1 Gig of Ram.  I also get the same exact performance using the Movie Player in Ubuntu 8.04 (which I'm assuming uses gstreamer also). 

Any suggestions or tips for making the video playback smoothly?  If this is a problem with gstreamer, any talks of improving the performance?  Just as a reference, I used Kino to play the file, and it plays the file very smoothly.

Thanks in advance!
-Jonathan

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Just a little more background:  I am attempting to put together a prototype of a non-linear video editor using the gstreamer framework.  The .DV file format is a very important format for home / consumer-level video editing.  I'm concerned that if the performance is no good on that format, then it will impede the progress of all non-linear editors trying to use gstreamer. 

Does anyone agree / disagree?

Thanks,
-Jonathan

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Jonathan Thomas <[hidden email]> wrote:
I noticed that the gstreamer framework seems to take all my CPU when trying to view a 32 MB DV file (which I captured from my mini-dv camcorder).  I am using Python to load the DV file and play it.  My computer is a Pentium 4 with a 1.8 GHz CPU and 1 Gig of Ram.  I also get the same exact performance using the Movie Player in Ubuntu 8.04 (which I'm assuming uses gstreamer also). 

Any suggestions or tips for making the video playback smoothly?  If this is a problem with gstreamer, any talks of improving the performance?  Just as a reference, I used Kino to play the file, and it plays the file very smoothly.

Thanks in advance!
-Jonathan


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