[ILUG] Playing DVDs with MPlayer

[Roger Irwin]

I have set up MPlayer and got it to play DVDs using sdl:dga amount other
video modes and the best I can get is for it to drop ~12.5% of frames which
isn't as good a preformance as I would have expected on my system (AMD
1400 with DDR). CPU usage isn't high with MPlayer showing up on gtop at
~14% while playing in X11 mode or:
Broken pipe 364.3 A-V: -0.036 ct: -0.071  9101/9101  15%  4% 35.5% 1225 0

This leads me to supect my ATI xpert 2000 can't be set up properly or is
in framebuffer mode or something... Surly that isn't the case?

Any other suggestions?

/var/log/XFree86.0.log
XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System

(II) R128(0): PCI bus 1 card 5 func 0
(**) R128(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(II) R128(0): Pixel depth = 16 bits stored in 2 bytes (16 bpp pixmaps)
(==) R128(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) R128(0): RGB weight 565
(II) R128(0): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a
(II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4
(II) R128(0): initializing int10
(II) R128(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(**) R128(0): Chipset: "ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5246)
(--) R128(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xd4000000
(--) R128(0): MMIO registers at 0xd9000000
(II) R128(0): Video RAM override, using 16384 kB instead of 16384 kB
(**) R128(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (128-bit SDR SGRAM 1:1)
(II) R128(0): PLL parameters: rf=2950 rd=65 min=12500 max=35000;
xclk=13000

.. Other stuff..

(II) R128(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
        Screen to screen bit blits
        Solid filled rectangles
        8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
        Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
        Solid Lines
        Dashed Lines
        Scanline Image Writes
        Offscreen Pixmaps
        Setting up tile and stipple cache:
                32 128x128 slots
                28 256x256 slots
                13 512x512 slots
(II) R128(0): Acceleration enabled
(II) R128(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1204)
(II) R128(0): Largest offscreen area available: 832 x 7586
(II) R128(0): Dotclock is 40 Mhz, setting ecp_div to 0
(II) R128(0): 0x55 0xaa
(II) R128(0): No MM_TABLE found



/etc/X11/XF86Config

# Standard VGA Device:
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Standard VGA"
    Driver     "ati"
EndSection

# Device configured by xf86config:
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI Rage 128"
    Driver      "ati"
    ChipID 0x5246
    VideoRam    16384
EndSection