DVD software

[Alban Fellows]

On Thursday 15 August 2002 01:35, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Bill Fink wrote:
> > Run xine-check and pay attention to what it says.  Also check the
> > xine HOWTO at:
> >
> > 	http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-howto/en_GB/html/howto.html
> >
> > Especially check Section 9 (Increasing Performance).
> >
> > The two biggest speed issues are making sure you are using Xv, and making
> > sure DMA is enabled on your DVD drive.
>
> I have managed to get xine to play DVDs, but the performance is terrible
> on my 400MHz G3 powerbook.
>
> I am not using Xv, as it claims it is not there. What do I need to do to
> add Xv to the XFree86 v4.2.0 that comes with YDL v2.2?
>
> I tried to install the ATI drivers from gatos, but the drivers do not
> build properly on my machine (it complains of a number of missing header
> files). Any ideas for getting gatos to work?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
You might want to check out Ogle. I have not been able to get Xine to play 
DVDs very well, but Ogle seems to handle things better and it appears to be 
faster.

Alban.