Re: [xine-user] img buffers

[john s. <joh...@se...>]

Thanks for your help Guenter. You actually solved my problem. I didn't
mention the fact that my sound wasn't working because I thought it
wasn't relevant. I was using alsa drivers for my yamaha pci built-in
sound card. Anyway I downloaded the latest alsa drivers (0.5.10) and
after I set them up everything works. Thanks a lot for your help. It's
almost 2pm here in Toronto... I think I'll go and purchase a few DVDs.

John.

ps: Also thanks to the great team who put together XINE. Fantastic job.


Guenter Bartsch wrote:
> 
> 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