[Bug 19280] Using Kaffeine to play video makes my notebook system overheated

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19280





--- Comment #3 from Corbin Simpson <MostAwesomedude at gmail.com>  2008-12-28 09:43:06 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Well, i dont think its only CPU, because only one core is on 100% and my
> notebook doesnt overheating while i am using both cores on 100% (compilation of
> program for example). But what i know is it is really driver-related, because
> it is okay with fglrx
> 

There's no acceleration for your GPU with the open-source drivers, so the CPU
has to do all the video decoding, which is why it's overheating.

Not sure if this is "invalid," or "not a bug."

~ C.


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