Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:19:04 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: bartscgr@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de Cc: Heiko Schaefer <hschaefer@fto.de>, multimedia@freebsd.org, Robert Edmonds <edmonds@robertedmonds.net>, xine-user <xine-user@lists.sourceforge.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [xine-user] xine on freebsd? Message-ID: <3B9F7CE8.E96D1B0@mitre.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109121654220.24314-100000@goofy.disney.gb>
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Guenter Bartsch wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Heiko Schaefer wrote: > > > > has anyone got xine to play DVDs on freebsd? videolan can play DVDs on > > > freebsd.. but the playback sucks even on a 500 mhz machine. > > > > by now, xine runs pretty nicely on freebsd. however, unfortunately not > > quite as well as on linux > > > i am currently trying to find reasons for this lack of performance on > > freebsd compared to linux and am mostly stuck with the theory that agp > > support is not really the same as on linux. maybe someone who knows more > > about xfree, agp and freebsd will eventually comment on this or propose a > > solution. any input on this would be welcome... > > even when using XvShm to display the video data xfree86 uses significantly > more cpu power on freebsd than on linux (~15% on freebsd compared to ~1-3% > on linux) which further indicates there's something wrong here. > > Comments, hints, ideas very welcome, Are you using XFree 4.x? What video cards are in both boxes? Are they the same box just dual booting? I've found that XFree 3.x is a processor pig on my system, but XFree 4.x is nice and light, particularly with Xv. I'm using a Matrox G200 with the slightly older Matrox HAL. Sometimes I wonder if Linux puts more of a buffer on DVDs than FreeBSD does, given the way that most of the linux DVD programs are written (read, decode, display, continue) they tend to IO starve themselves under FreeBSD. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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