Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:54:39 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org, Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu> Subject: Re: watching DVDs with videolan Message-ID: <3BF91D2E.16D29420@mitre.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111162338040.6258-100000@geographos.astro.washington.edu> <20011117015607.A943@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>
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Scott Long wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:46:14PM -0800, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I saw messages that videolan "works greatly" under FreeBSD and would be > > grateful for help with it! I watch DVDs with it. It works but it is damn > > slow: I see movement in separate frames, and the funny thing is that CPU > > is not 100% busy! Renicing up to -20 makes situation a bit better but not > > much. I have 850 MHz PIII on my laptop, so I think Are there any options > > which I should set in order to make it work? > > I assume that you are using an ATAPI DVD drive. Make sure that the > sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma is set to '1'. Also make sure that the output > plugin is using XVideo. If his CPU isn't 100% busy he's using XVideo. > > BTW, is vlc the best choice for watching DVD or there are better ones? > > vlc is known to be a bit slow. ogle is pretty good in terms of speed, > and it supports menus, though it's UI is not as nice as vlc. xine > apparently supports menus also, but it does not play encrypted DVD's > out-of-the-box. I have to recommend Ogle myself. It's the only thing that plays DVD acceptably on my PII-400, and it supports menus. Xine gives me nothing but grief and vlc is just slow. I consider Olge the first truely usable DVD player for 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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