DVD viewing on YDL 3.0

[Steve Ward]

Yeah, I have installed xine and lo and behold my DVD plays but with a
lot of dropped frames and slow playback although the sound is always in
sync. 

I ran xine-check and it indicates that I need to upgrade my X server to
support YV12 and/or update the drivers for my ATI Mach64 RagePro card.
Has anyone had any success in actually getting an older G3 to perform
doing these tweaks?

TIA
Steve



On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 05:07, Henry A. Leinhos wrote:
> David C. Hacker, DVM writes: 
> 
> > You should be able to view DVD's on a G3, provided you have a DVD drive in 
> > the computer, and the appropriate software installed.  There are several 
> > available for YDL.  Try doing yum search dvd for all  of the options.
> > David C. Hacker, DVM
> > On Jul 21, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Steve Ward wrote: 
> > 
> >> What are the hardware requirements for DVD viewing on YDL 3.0?
> >> I can only find materials outlining software dependencies.
> >> Will my old G3 do the trick or do I have to have a G4?
> >> TIA
> >> Steve
>  
> 
> I'd have to say that you'd need *at lease* a 450 MHz G3 to do software MPEG2 
> decoding (depending on your output/display driver).  Most G3 macs that came 
> with DVD drives also had hardware MPEG2 decoder cards (non supported under 
> linux) installed with their video card to get realtime performance under 
> MacOS.  I've got a 300MHz B+W that can't handle full DVD playback (I 
> transcode the video to MPEG4/Divx at a lower bitrate/resolution to watch any 
> DVD movies I own -- a process that takes 24-36 hours per movie for two-pass 
> MPEG4 encoding at 300MHz!).  I also have a 450 MHz B+W g3 (at work) that can 
> *barely* keep up with DVD playback.  My dual 450 G4 (also at work) can do 
> dvd playback without any problem (no supprise).  I prefer Mplayer, but there 
> are plenty of options. 
> 
> Henry
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