"John P. Looney" wrote:
> Anyone else played with DVD's on Linux. Even on a PIII 750, it's too slow
> - the picture quality is quite good, but it seems the decoding takes too
> much CPU time, so the audio is very missynced, even when ac3dec is niced
> to -5. It's like playing MPEG1 on a P60 or something :(
mpeg2player is just not sufficiently optimized yet, and can't take
advantage of hardware acceleration like colourspace conversion (unless
you're feeling brave and you have a G400)
With the -ns option on mpeg2player, which deliberately breaks sync
between video & audio, it's a bit smoother. You should also try XFree86
3.9.18 which is remarkably stable (I'm not going back to 3.3.5) and a
damned sight faster. I get around 20fps (Devil's Advocate) on a 450MHz
Celeron with a TNT card. 3.3.5 was about 20% slower even with
write-combining on.
Paul.
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