Posted by Qu0ll on Jan 15, 2013; 1:30am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/JOGL-media-player-tp4027810p4027828.html

Thanks very much for the info Sven.

I have installed FFmpeg and can now see the videos on the cube in the applet.

However, the videos play extremely slowly and the rendering is very jittery.  This is surprising because this machine is very powerful and has the current world's fastest graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 690 GTX).

Is this expected?  What could be the cause for this?  I have pondered on the following possibilities:

1. FFmpeg is inherently slow.
2. It's playing 6 videos at once so it has to be slow.
3. It's Java (slow).
4. It's something to do with the way the video frames are loaded into the texture.
5. It's not slow, it just runs slow on my machine.

Are any of these correct?  Any other ideas?