On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:22:36PM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
> 
> I've been using Xorg from pkgsrc for a month or so now, and I think I
> have found a regression with the radeon driver, compared to XFree86.
> 
> mplayer is finding it very hard to 'keep up' with any video, any
> format. trivial mouse/keyboard interactions cause it huge stutter.
> Everything else is fine (in fact, better than fine: the radeon
> multi-head stuff is just lovely. I really like Xorg)

Give us at least a little more information, like the output of
xvinfo and the first lines of mplayer so we can see if it uses
the XV output or just the plain X11 output device.
And what kind of hardware you are using.

For mplayer something like that:

VO: [xv] 640x360 => 640x360 Planar YV12 
     ^^

Bernd