RE: [xine-user] xine on less-than-high-end systems

[Paul G. <pau...@bi...>]

I'm with the windoze croud this time. Most DVDs are fine on my PIII500 but 
most DVD only use 2/3 of the screen; see the size of window xine opens 
compared to the immage displayed. Now rent a DVD that uses ALL the display 
area (Billy Elliot [region 2]) and check your CPU usage again. Up at 100% 
from 80 and with 10% frame drop! This DVD played fine in windoze on my ati 
player. I didn't check the CPU usage 'cos I was watching the movie...  Yes 
I've got Xv & raw and they do make the difference but occasionally its not 
enough.

On the plus side, the kernel and XFree are getting faster and driver 
support is increasing. PCs are getting faster and by the time xine is 
finished (which looks like it could be soon) a 500MHz machine will probably 
be basement minimum anyway...

Xine does just plug & play on SuSE.

Errrg got to go...
Keep up the good work.

Paul Gibbs
DDI - 01845 521024
Teleware Plc, Station Road, Thirsk, YO7 1PZ

-----Original Message-----
From:	Jeffrey W. Baker [SMTP:jw...@ac...]
Sent:	Wednesday, June 06, 2001 5:17 PM
To:	xine-user
Subject:	Re: [xine-user] xine on less-than-high-end systems

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:

> > > Finally, I can't help but feel that you may be aiming for perfection,
> > > and ignoring the context of reality. IMHO, xine's price of entry is
> > > too high. From the docs, it seems to need too many resources...

What on Earth are you talking about?  On my Athlon 650, a mid-range
machine when I bought it 18 months ago, Xine hardly uses any CPU at all.
Certainly it uses less than 100%, which is all that is needed.  On my
Athlon 1.2GHz, I can barely see it in top.

As long as you have a card capable of Xv, and a DVD drive capable of DMA
transfers over the raw device, you'll be set.  The key to Xine isn't a
huge CPU, but correct use of existing resources.  I can even use Xine to
play DVDs on my 400 MHz powerpc, which is a sorry CPU indeed.

-jwb


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