Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:56:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Aaron Peterson" <aaron@alpete.com> To: "Robert Golovniov" <g-r-v@ukr.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Playing DVD Message-ID: <3207.139.55.15.193.1079218602.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> In-Reply-To: <200403131750.i2DHoBbS015321@gw.core> References: <200403131750.i2DHoBbS015321@gw.core>
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> I've followed the instruction in the handbook regarding playing > DVDs, but the playback is still not as smooth as I had it when > running on a Windows box. What steps can be taken to achieve a still > better quality? If you are using mplayer you should try using an excellerated video driver for one, instead of taking the default. XV is a good one if your video card supports it. second you might try caching some of the dvd before it starts to play. this way it keeps a buffer in memory that is quicker to read from than the dvd by itself. then you might also try the framedrop option, so when your machine can't keep up with the dvd information it drops frames a bit more gracefully and you won't see as many jerky starts and stops. this might look something like the following: mplayer -vo xv -cache 8192 -framedrop dvd:// For more information on these options and others, you could check out "man mplayer" Aaron
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