Re: [xine-user] DVD's hesitate while playing

[Manfred T. <Man...@ii...>]

Am Sonntag, 18. August 2002 03:27 schrieb Douglas Phillipson:
> I have several machines running xine.  The 1.7ghz machine seems to
> play quite well but my 1.2ghz machine cyclicly hesitates while
> playing, as does a 1.0ghz laptop.
>
> Question:  In the docs it mentions "Playback using Xv or XShm" .
>
> 1) Which will be better

Xv is much faster, because scaling, YUV -> RGB convertion and other nice 
things are done by the gpu and not the cpu. Saves a lot of cpu-time.

> 2)  how do I know which is being used

Open The xine-prefs it's displayd there. Also you can say xine what to 
use. Start it with 'xine -V Xv' or 'xine -V XShm'.

> 3) How do I tell if I have "Xv"?  I presume this is some sort of X
> Video extensions???

Type xine-check to a xterm, take a look at the output.
Type xvinfo to a xterm, take a look at the output.

> I read that generally, any machine 400mhz and above should work, mine
> are considerably above 400, any ideas why xine seems to play slow?

xine-check gives you a lot of infos, maybe the dma-mode of your 
dvd-drive is not activated or ...
Maybe you should deaktivate xsynchronisation in the prefs.

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