I've noticed BBC HD content skips a lot when I watch it and discovered that the iPlayer Desktop is utilising only one core of my CPU, i.e. core 1 usage at 100%, core 2 around 10%. Is there any way to get a better balance or is video playback something that can't exploit parallelism?
System for info:
Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04
Core 2 Duo 6420 (@ stock)
Asus P5B
2GB Geil RAM (spec: PC2-8500 DDR2 1066 MHz, CAS 4-4-4-12)
GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
Time to try to the http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...beginners.html perhaps