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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:30:23 -0500
From:      Mathew KANNER <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>
To:        Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DVD playback
Message-ID:  <20010126163023.A23938@cs.mcgill.ca>
In-Reply-To: Nick Sayer's message [Re: DVD playback] as of Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:02:47PM -0800
References:  <200101232202.f0NM2l606729@medusa.kfu.com>

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On Jan 23, Nick Sayer wrote:
> Just upgraded to xine 0.3.6 and it works much, much better now. Most disks
> now can generate a playlist when you hit the 'dvd' button, and can
> now seamlessly play the playlist rather than simply playing the .VOB
> files.

	I upgraded my OS as well as xine and I agree -- it is much
improved.  I theorize that I could watch "Three Kings" or "Dr
Strangelove [...]" very comfortably if I spooled them to my HD first.
In fact, in full-screen, top would report a load average between 0.25
and 1.0 and an idleness of about %40.  With a brilliant picture and
clear sound with no delay, I'd be very impressed. (details follow)
	At the risk of sounding fervently aligned, my machine also has
USB Ethernet and ADSL.  I would say that FBSD is a very nice consumer
OS.  If only we could end this nonsense of speaking in tongues and
fumbling around in the dark for fear of prosecution (persecution?).

	--Mat

OS: Binaries and kernel source are from
      ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/5.0-20010125-CURRENT/

   kernel:  a custom compile based on GENERIC with SMP, Netgraph, USER_LDT and
            ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA and less INET6, gif, faith, NICs, msdos, nfs,
            cd9660
     -the GENERIC kernel now contains sounds by default!
     -I have to keep PNP OS -> NO in my bios or else no sound
   /boot/loader.conf
      userconfig_script_load="YES"
      ng_pppoe_load="YES"
      agp_load="YES"
      if_ed_load="YES"
     - usb ethernet doesn't seem to like to be a modules at the moment, hence I
       leave it static in the kernel
   /etc/sysctl.conf
      kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
      kern.ipc.shmall=32768
     - as per xine FAQ

Hardware:
   bash-2.03$ dmesg | egrep '(apic|pcib0|acd|sbc|pcm|ed0|cue)'
    cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
    cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
    io0 (APIC): apic id:  2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000
   pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> at pcibus 0 on motherboard
   pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
   cue0: CATC                             CATC Netmate2 Ethernet Adaptor  , rev 1.00/2.20, addr 2
   cue0: Ethernet address: 00:10:4c:11:19:ce
   ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
   ed0: address 00:00:e8:61:a3:fb, type NE2000 (16 bit)
   sbc0: <Creative ViBRA16X> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,3 on isa0
   pcm1: <SB16 DSP 4.16 (ViBRA16X)> on sbc0
   cue0 XXX: driver didn't initialize queue mtx
   ed0 XXX: driver didn't initialize queue mtx
   acd0: DVD-ROM <Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 0122> at ata1-master using UDMA33
   bash-2.03$ xdpyinfo | egrep 'r r|XV|n #|w:|ime'
   vendor release number:    4002
       XVideo
   screen #0:
     dimensions:    1600x1200 pixels (339x254 millimeters)
     depth of root window:    16 planes
   bash-2.03$ grep Chipset /var/log/XFree86.0.log
   (--) Chipset mgag400 found
   (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag400"
   bash-2.03$ kldstat
   Id Refs Address    Size     Name
    1   16 0xc0100000 2f2f08   kernel
    2    1 0xc03f3000 741c     ng_pppoe.ko
    3    1 0xc03fb000 c374     agp.ko
    4    1 0xc0408000 b518     if_ed.ko
    5    1 0xc1444000 4000     if_tun.ko
    6    1 0xc144c000 4000     ng_ether.ko
    7    1 0xc1451000 4000     ng_socket.ko
    8    1 0xc1476000 12000    linux.ko
    9    1 0xc14da000 d000     msdos.ko
   10    1 0xc1504000 9000     cd9660.ko
   bash-2.03$ pkg_info | egrep 'XFree86-4|xine'
   XFree86-4.0.2_5     X11R6.4/XFree86 core distribution (complete)
   xine-0.3.6_3        A MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 player

  - XFree86-4.0.2_5 was a binairy install from
     ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/
    it was built on Jan 11/01, I think.
  - xine was built of of the ports, I think I had to patch it to handle the 'cc
    -pthread' -> 'cc -lc_r' issue.


-- 
Mathew Kanner <mat@CS.McGill.CA>  Sys Admin at large
   Obtuse quote: He [not me] understands: "This field of perception
   is void of perception of man." -- The Quintessence of Buddhism 


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