DVD playback - Choppy?

[Shawn Coomey]

Thanks Mark-
You may be on to something.
I have Xv enabled and /dev/rdvd for playback.

However, I don't know if direct rendering is set up for the Rage128. My
guess is that this is probably the culprit.

Any idea how to enable this?

Thanks!

Shawn



On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 00:51, mpople@orbeng.com wrote:
> Hi,
> A few things that vastly improved my xine performance was to make sure i was
> using Xv video driver and i set up my /dev/rdvd for playback and also i
> enable direct rendering for my Rage128.
> hope this helps
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Coomey [mailto:scoomey@charter.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2002 1:39 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: DVD playback - Choppy?
> 
> 
> Hi folks-
> Hope this hasn't been asked a ton of times before... can't search the
> lists.:(
> 
> I have a B&W G3 tower (DVD drive, Rage128 card) and a Powerbook G3
> Lombard (DVD drive, RagePro card, I believe.). Both machines are using
> kernel 2.4.18 and Xine 0.9.8 with the dmd 1.0.2 plugin handling the CSS
> decoding and Xvideo enabled.
> 
> Under Mac OS 9, these machines handled DVD playback flawlessly. 
> In Linux, both machines do not. (2-5 FPS). Sound is fine, but playback
> is just terrible. I've also tried VLC with libcss with the same outcome.
> If it's of any help, Xine outputs these messages in the term window all
> over the place:
> 
> video_out: rejected, 8 frames to skip
> video_out: rejected, 6 frames to skip
> video_out: rejected, 8 frames to skip
> 
> Has anyone gotten decent DVD playback on either of these machines? In my
> experience with Linux, this is perhaps the most frustrating! 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 
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