[xine-devel] Playback smoothness of DVD's vs. mplayer

[Chris W. <cb...@cs...>]

I've built a mythTv box for my home theater and have been playing around 
with getting satisfactory dvd playback. I've searched around the 
archives and google and tried most things I've found, but xine still has 
a little jerkiness when playing back dvds or mpegs (this is without any 
chain-reaction filtering, etc.). I had the same issue with mplayer, 
until I set /proc/dev/rtc/max-user-freq to 1024 or whatever. Now mplayer 
is flawlessly smooth, but xine is still the same. I *love* xine's 
interface and the deinterlacing options are far superior to mplayer's, 
but I just can't seem to get it smooth. I guess my first question is why 
might this be? Is the metronom implemented in such a way as to not be at 
a high enough resolution? Is there a compile time option I need, or is 
there a way to get the metronom to use a better clock source?

Thanks,
Chris