[xine-user] xine various questions.

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First let me sayx that I am extremely naive about multi-media. (my working 
desktop is xemacs).

I first tried to download xine-lib-1-beta10. The result was not satisfactory. 
The image was jumpy as if only every 10th frame or so was displayed. I put 
this down to the graphic card (Nvidia Geforce2 MX/MX 400). Since I like my 
display to be 1600/1200, I have to use the generic Nvidia driver and not 
Nvida's own driver which can only do 3D accelleration up to 1280/1024.

But being of an optimistic nature, I tried xine-lib-1-beta12 and the video was 
fast and stable. The colours, however are washed out. I am able to set 
brightness, constrast and saturation but not hue.

xine (-ui) sometimes starts and sometime hangs but ^C and restart most often 
works.

Since the xine-ui has very small fonts (for my 1600/1200 display), I tried to 
download various alternative frontends, None worked, some wouldn't compile 
and others crashed on start. The nearest to working is gxine but I get video 
without sound.

Do I need to become a mult-media expert to look at movies under Linux? 

Or just wait a couple of months or years (not really an option since I am 
getting too old).

I am using SuSE 8.2 with quite a bit of memory, but this is probably 
irrelevant.

Malcolm Agnew