mplayer and vdpau

So I was just using mplayer -vo vdpau... and here's my cpu util:

 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 6172 XXX      20   0  155m  50m  14m R 22.9  2.5   0:06.86 mplayer

Thats when I stumbled upon this ArchLinux Wiki post, and added these to my ~/.mplayer/config file:

vo=vdpau,
vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau, 

And now,

  
PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
6397 XXX      20   0  157m  51m  15m S  2.3  2.6   0:03.73 mplayer

my %cpu dropped from 22.9% to 2.3%..! Amazing, isn't it?


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