[xine-user] RE: Streaming Black Lines over right hand side of Xine Display Window --- Newbie Xine User

[Mark B. <p-...@ex...>]

Final Result:  Xine working okay.  Took the FAQ hint on upping the nice 
value for X & Xine both.  Now xine runs  well enough,  still drops & 
discards frames but video is smooth to the eye. 

I'd like to suggest that the Xine FAQ be changed to suggest the use of  
the command 'renice' to change the nice number. This allows the running 
of Xine as a non-privileged user instead of as root.  It does require 
root access to a term window and it's a little inelegant as a tweak but 
it works fine.  

Also, for the record,  the machine Xine is installed on is a 500 Mhz 
Pentium with 384 M ram, Matrox Millenium G200 with 8 M of video ram.   
The 300 Mhz machine I mentioned was an older Win98 box on which I use to 
watch videos until windows does what it does best -- go weird.   Still  
trying to fix that one and none too optimistic about it!  ;-)

Anyway, I'm happy with Xine.  It's a very nice player.  Kudos to the 
developers and thanks to everyone who has helped!

Mark