Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG
- To: Viral Shah <viral@cs.ucsb.edu>
- Cc: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG
- From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>
- Date: 21 Mar 2002 00:24:58 +0100
- Message-id: <1016666698.3078.8435.camel@tibook>
- In-reply-to: <20020320214048.GC703@lorien>
- References: <20020319210157.GA1351@lorien> <E16nnH6-0000AF-00@piglet.grunz.lu> <20020320214048.GC703@lorien>
On Mit, 2002-03-20 at 22:40, Viral Shah wrote:
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> With xine, the dvdnav and css plugin just segfaults on my machine.
Works here, have you tried several DVDs?
> I got ogle to work, and mplayer to work too.. Both were ok, but dropped frames..
> mplayer suggests using alsa for sound. Would that help ?
No, the problem isn't the sound driver but lack of horsepower.
> I have a 500 MHz ibook2, and I can watch divx movies in fullscreen (xine)
> without any frame dropping. Its perfect. So I can't understand why dvds
> don't seem to play. I dont think that decss cpu requirement >> divx decoding..
MPEG2 CPU requirement > DivX CPU requirement (in general).
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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