Re: Playing DVDs on Debian
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 13:15, RogXrio Brito wrote:
> On 07 de jul de 2004, at 15:30, Adam Done wrote:
> > I am using a 400mHz G4 with a 800mHz processor on a 22" Apple orignal
> > flatpanel monitor.
> >
> > vo=x11
>
> This is probably one of the reasons why you are seeing poor performance
> and/or dropped frames. You should be using xv as a video output
> mechanism.
Thanks :)
> You should also keep the other processes to a minimum because other
> things happening when you're playing videos can cause dropped frames.
> MacOS X is able to have other running processes because it uses
> hardware decoding of DVDs, while Linux is essentially limited to doing
> everything in software, but you're lucky enough to have an
> Altivec-enabled processor (which I don't).
>
> BTW, please disable the HTML formatting of your posts.
Oh, sorry.. I took the HTML formatting off :)
-adam
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