Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:52:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Watching DVD's in -stable Message-ID: <20010731234708.W1993-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> In-Reply-To: <20010731122508.V4531-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org>
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Okay, I dropped a Geforce2 MX400 in, and videolan started working. The quality isn't too great compared with DXR3 output under windows, but it works. There is a lot of background audio high frequency noise, there's also audio popping. Also, the video is a little bit jerky (similar to what i've seen with software DVD decoding in windows). Apparently it was either that my video card was dying, or videolan may not be compatible with TNT2 Ultras. xine still doesn't work for me though. whoops, i just tried subtitles and it cored... On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Lamont Granquist wrote: > Well I did this exactly as outlined and it still segflts before playing > any video. The GTK_CONFIG helped as now i've got the control panel to > start correctly. > > I suspect my video card is crapping out, though, its possible that might > be related to the problems that I'm having. I've got a new video card > showing up in the mail in the next couple of days and I'll have to give > that a try. > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > For anyone who has followed this, 0.2.81 builds cleanly (assuming set > > the GTK_CONFIG variable to point to gtk12-config) on -stable and works > > fine ONCE I ENABLED DMA on the drive. (That means putting: > > hw.ata.atpai_dma="1" > > into my /boot/loader.conf file.) > > > > When I say "works", I mean that I see the video start to play and hear > > the initial audio. I have yet to try running a full movie. > > > > When I did not have DMA enabled, I could occasionally get audio, but > > no video. Even the audio played poorly. > > > > Steps followed: > > 1. Download the tarball from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download.html. > > Both gzip and bzip2 files are available. The bz2 file is smaller. > > 2. Unpack (tar -xjf vlc-0.2.81.tar.bz2) > > 3. setenv GTK_CONFIG /usr/X11R6/bin/gtk12-config > > 4. ./configure > > 5. gmake (You will have to install the GNU make port for this to work.) > > 6. gmake install > > 7. gmake clean > > 8. ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/dvd (this assumes an ATAPI DVD/CD drive) > > 9. Check DMA setting with "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma". Of it is 0, add the > > line in the first paragraph to /boot/loader.conf and reboot. > > 10.vlc dvd:/dev/dvd > > > > If you don't have access to the dvd device, you will should probably > > edit /etc/fbtab to get it. I don't recommend running anything as root > > if you don't have to. > > > > That's about all you need to do! > > > > R. Kevin Oberman > > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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