Re: very poor performance of DVD using vesa or fglrx-driver
Is the DVD drive running in DMA mode? Almost certainly is, but worth a
quick check of dmesg.
--John
B Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On my Dell Insprion 9400 (1.83 Ghz dual core with 256Mb ATI Radeon
> x1400) DVD playing is much slower (choppy infact) as compared to
> my ancient 900 Mhz Athlong with RIVA TNT !.
> This problem occurs wether I use the XFree86 Vesa driver or
> the Proprietary ATI fglrx-driver. I configured the latter
> with aticonfig --initial and even tried aticonfig --ovt Xvideo
> after that. xine-check reports that my video card does not
> support "yv12 overlays" and hence DVD playing will be very
> CPU intensive .
> Any suggestions ?
>
> b thomas
>
>
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