Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:48:19 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Aniruddha <mailing_list@redmijncomputer.nl> Subject: Re: Problems watching video with the Radeon HD 3850 Message-ID: <200904171948.19705.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <49E8B41E.9070401@redmijncomputer.nl> References: <49E8B41E.9070401@redmijncomputer.nl>
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On Friday 17 April 2009 18:53:50 Aniruddha wrote: > First of all I must say I'm impressed by the latest stable freebsd > release (7.1). A lot of hardware which didn't work before now works out > of the box :) I only have problems watching video, it feels sluggish > and there frequently runs a stripe through my screen. Which settings > (and driver) do I need to use in order solve this? I now use the > radeonhd driver. I have a Radeon HD 3850 (RV670PRO) card . Thanks in > advance! If using mplayer, can you try if specifying a cache resolves the problems? Use -cache 20480 for a ~20MB cache which should be sufficient to rule this out. If this resolves the problem, it's not in your video card (or driver), but rather in storage media. -- Mel
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