Re: xine debs

[Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>]

On  22 Apr, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/xine/
> 
> Built with patches from Henry Worth (thanks!).

Heya! Finally a DVD player that is useable under Linux ;-) I had
experimented with OMS as well, but it crashed on 4 out of my 4 DVD's...

Minor problem, the above .debs depend on xlibs >= 4.0.3; testing is
still at 4.0.2. Forcing the install does work, however.

Other point: performance. I am getting around 70 dropped frames out of
each block of 200... Which makes DVD useable, but impossible to really
_watch_ a movie. What are others getting? This is on a G4/400 TiBook.
Has anybody made any atttempt at using Altivec to speed things up?

Also, sound (using OSS output) is desynchronized. xine does complain on
startup about some OSS real-time stuff not working... Is there anything
that can be done to improve sound?

Thanks to all who contributed to this project ;-)

Cheers

Michel

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