Re: [xine-user] anyone playing movies watchably?

[Bruno P. <bp...@if...>]

I forgot to say : thanks to the developpers, because with xine (and xawtv for 
tv), i don't have winsuck any more on my computer since yesterday
THANKS YOU VERY MUCH !! VERY GOOD JOB !!

Le Mardi 27 Mars 2001 01:07, Bruno Pinaud a écrit :
> Le Lundi 26 Mars 2001 23:15, vous avez écrit :
> > I watched  my first DVD last night  -- Full Metal Jacket,  which was a
> > mistake because it's a 3 hour movie and so it took me about 5 hours to
> > watch   the  whole  thing,   what  with   skipping  and   hanging  and
> > restarting. It didn't  help that I started at 1 AM.  Which leads me to
> > ask: has  anyone here been able  to play DVDs, under  Linux, without a
> > hardware decoder,  successfully?
>
> yes, with normal dvd player or with decss plugin
>
>  When I say successfully,  I mean well
>
> > enough to invite some friends over, let the thing roll, and never have
> > to touch it? If  so, what kind of hardware are you  running on? I have
> > the following  set-up, and if  I get any  reports of success,  I'll be
> > wondering what to upgrade first:
> >
> > PIII 500 (Katmai)
> > ATI Xpert98 8MB ("Rage Pro", uses XF86_Mach64)
> > Pioneer DVD-116 DVD-ROM
> > Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA (using isapnp)
> >
> > I'm  running xine-0.4.01  under XFree86  3.3.6 and  kernel  2.2.17.  I
> > played the "echo blah > /proc/mtrr" game, but no idea if successfully
> > or not.  No Xv, I know, but  presumably this is only  a cosmetic issue
> > and not  a performance issue?   Or should I expect  significantly less
> > skipping with Xv?
> >
> > -chris
>
> ok, i see your problem. Your video card is quite old, and you're not using
> XFree 4. With XFree 4.02, you can use Xv which is faster for watchin video.
> If i'm not wrong, Xv adress the video card directly without "talking" with
> the X server.
> My configuration
> PIII 500
> TNT2 16Mo with nvidia driver
> kernel 4.02 and XFree 4.03
>
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-- 
Bruno Pinaud
Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes Dept. SILR
 
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