Re: [xine-user] 4.0.1 performance issues.

[BTInternet <cm...@bt...>]

I don't want to disagree with you here, but I've run a few tests.
My system:
Distro : Mandrake 7.2
Kernel : 2.4.2
Gfx : Voodo Banshee 3
DRI-CVS date : March 3rd (last updated & compiled)
XFree86 4.0.2 CVS date :  March 1st (last updated & compiled)
alsa : 0.5.10b

I have tried compiling xine 4.0.1 from source, but this kept seg faulting 
when I went to full screen, so I'm using the RPM version of 4.0.1 and 
comparing it against 3.7RPM - and playing back the same part of a DVD movie 
3.7 is definatley a lot smoother on my setup - audio sync is much better as 
well. 

Is there something I'm missing. If you like, I could send you some output 
which would show frames skipped etc, but for me 3.7 has much smoother 
playback. if I can get 4.0.1 to work as well on my system as 3.7 then that 
would be great - obviously I want to use the latest version.

The DVD-plugin is from Captin CSS, and is the 3.7 version as I couldn't see a 
4.0.1 specific version, but I recompiled that each time I swaped versions.

strange!?

Christopher.



On Tuesday 13 March 2001 12:19, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, BTInternet wrote:
> > I've just been playing with 4.0.1. Is it supposed to be much better than
> > the previous version for performance, I've got recent CVS versions of
> > XFree86-4.0.2, DRI-CVS and a stable 2.4.2 Kernel with my Voodo Banshee
> > and I half suspect 4.0.1 is actually slower...?
>
> It's definitely faster than all releases we've had before. Plus it
> actually gifes spare CPU cycles to other processes on demand.
>
> > Playing back the Blues Brothers (original) it actually froze on me once
> > (pressing play resumed it though).
>
> That's something else: noone claimed that it's stable. 0.3.7 is rock solid
> compared to 0.4.01, but not as fast. And it lacks some minor updates
> (refer to ChangeLog)...
>
> Regards,
> 	Siggi