>> mplayer -quiet -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=2500:h=2000:y8 >> /dev/zero -vo x11 > > That one however is rather slow and cannot even do scaling in hardware. Sorry for the bit of unrelated question in this thread, but if scaling isn't needed as the raw stream is in the right size, why does it make any difference in this case? It is an uncompressed video stream that has to be given to the display. Ok, the stream is y8, so each value has to be given three times to be RGB, but is there anything else that could be accelerated in such a case? Greets, Kiste