From: Guenter B. <bar...@st...> - 2000-12-27 15:38:33
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Hi, On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, john selmys wrote: > I just installed xine (and the css module) on my Toshiba laptop - 8Mb > Savage S3 video, 128MB RAM, DVD player, 450MHz Pentium III, 12GB HD. The > problem I'm getting is when I play a dvd using xine dvd://t0c5t10 it > plays for a second and then pauses for a second. It then repeats, play, > pause, play pause,... The message I get is "warning: no free img buffers > left". hmmm - do you have audio output while xine is playing? What you describe sounds like you got a wrong audio channel selected. try experimenting with xine -a # dvd://... where # is the audio channel (1,2,3...) > My question is - will xine work on my platform or do I have to move to > kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.0??? OR do I need a faster dvd and better > graphics card? xine should work on your configuration (as long as you can find audio drivers... ;)), but I'm not sure if you'll be able to tweak it to give you smooth playback (no skipped frames). Upgrading the kernel seems to give some people performance, but not always. I tried it myself and the nvidia drivers seemed slower on 2.4.x for me. Raw device support will be in the next xine release and that'll give you a bit more performance - but there's no need to upgrade to 2.4.x for that as patches for the 2.2.x kernel series exist Upgrading to xfree 4.x could bring you much better performance _if_ you find drivers for your chipset that support the xv extension - does anybody on this list have experience with S3 chips and Xv ? Regards, Guenter |