Running 1080p video from within XOrg smoothly

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The 1080p examples that work outside of X.Org run very smoothly on my Pi, but within X.Org they don't run very smoothly at all at the moment.

Given that X.Org is currently not GPU-accelerated, this is understandable - but with the hardware limitations will running such video smoothly in X.Org ever be possible, or is this unlikely even if X.Org was running on the GPU?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 13 '12 at 01:22

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You just need a video player that decodes the video using the GPU.

The suggested (and currently the only known) player for the RPi that does this is OMXPlayer.

edited Jun 13 '12 at 01:22

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Running 1080p video from within XOrg smoothly

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