Hello ! On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:14:05PM -0400, Thomas Evans wrote: > I've been playing with xine and one of those DeCSS decoders > on my 164LX (600Mhz) trying to get it to reliably play DVDs. Reliable = xine crashes ? > The performance is terrible - I can play DVDs with NT4 just > fine on this machine (granted with an Alpha optimized player). Two things come to my mind: a) Did you compile xine yourself for your architecture (optimization) ? b) Do you have XVideo extensions available under X ? (see below) > Can anyone recommend a more efficient player? I use mplayer (though I do not have an DVD drive, but e.g. mpegs from a CD), self compiled on my LX 533 Mhz. If I have no XVideo, it chockes at light loads. With XVideo I can have John running in the background and still zoom up mpegs and watch them fine. I think Falk Hueffner works heavily on the alpha optimization part. I can mail you a small script which nicely downloads, builds and creates a deb of mplayer which you can then easily install. Greetings Helge -- Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. Helge.Kreutzmann@itp.uni-hannover.de gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger kreutzm@rigel.itp.uni-hannover.de 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/
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