Re: [Mactel-linux-users] dvd playback choppy

[Nicolas B. <nb...@la...>]

Thanks for pointing me toward the avivo driver. I wasn't aware of it, or
that it supports the X1600. Unfortunately, it doesn't work very well on
my laptop. The image flickers once in a while and sometimes it seems to
completely screw up the video card and nothing displays anymore. I
switched back to the proprietary ATI driver for now.

nick


On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:26 +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:

> 2007/9/21, Nick Hoffman <li...@gm...>:
> > On 21/09/2007, Nicolas Bock <nb...@la...> wrote:
> > >  I can't really play back DVDs on my MacBook Pro. No matter what program I use (mplayer, totem, vlc, ...), the video is choppy. When I play back a movie file (e.g. an .avi file) the playback is smooth. Has anyone else seen this? I am completely clueless as to why the DVD playback is not smooth.
> >
> > hi Nick. i get similar behaviour: if i play an AVI in VLC or xine, the
> > video's choppy and completely unusable. however, i believe if i play
> > it in kmplayer, the video's fine. i haven't booted into Debian in a
> > few weeks, so this is going from memory..
> >
> > i haven't found a fix for it yet, but i didn't look hard. i've been
> > using MacOS X as my primary OS lately, simply because i don't have the
> > time to fiddle with Debian to get it to work as i want. if you find a
> > solution, definitely post it to the list.
> 
> I also had the same problem after upgrading to a newer version of the
> ATI proprietary driver (I do not remember the version number but I
> could not use the previously working driver with a newer kernel).
> 
> I do not have this problem using the free software driver avivo. And I
> think the new free software driver will be even better.
> 
> Just say good bye to the fglrx driver.
> 
> bye
>