Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 08:46:48PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> On Mar 10 2002, user list wrote:
> > Thanks for responding to my question.
> (...)
> > I have upgraded my box to woody (testing) and I've installed mplayer.
>
> That's good. Did you also use xine for watching the movies?
> I'd recommend that you install xine-dvdnav as it will provide
> you dvd menus.
>
> Try also to get libdvdcss1 from Videolan's site
> <http://www.videolan.org>, since Debian cannot distribute it.
> It will help you if you have CSS encrypted DVDs.
>
> > I don't remember a liblame0.
>
> Indeed, that's because liblame0 is not a part of Debian. You
> would have to get the sources from the lame project
> <http://lame.sf.net/>.
>
> Unfortunately, the current stable version of lame (3.91)
> doesn't have a nice division of packages and lacks liblame0.
> After the 3.91 release, I joined the project as the Debian
> packaging developer and I already included (what I feel is) a
> nicer division of the package, including liblame0 and
> liblame0-dev (needed for compiling mplayer/mencoder with MP3
> support).
>
> But the lack of it isn't going to cause your computer to be
> slow. It will only mean that won't be able to create AVI files
> with MP3-encoded tracks, as far as I know.
>
> > I ask because the movies are pretty slow. Here are the specs. of my
> > box
> >
> > 600 MHz Athlon
> > 756 M CRAM
> > Matrox Millennium G200 (16 MB)
> > 12x DVD-CD rom drive
> >
> > 30GB Hard disk
>
> No, it shouldn't be slow. In fact, it should be faster than my
> computer, I think. Mine is a 600MHz Duron, with 128MB of RAM
> and a Matrox G400 (16MB also).
>
> > Two general questions:
> >
> > 1. If this is a fast enough box, what are the switches that I need
> > to improve speed. I can't (or don't know how to) access DGA. Is
> > this important?
>
> Well, first of all, install xine on your machine. It is easier
> to see if everything is working correctly with xine than with
> mplayer. After you make it work with xine, then use mplayer if
> you want to.
>
> Some general guidelines:
>
> 1 - are you running XFree86 4 with XV support? This is
> probably the most critical part of the system. X 4 is
> much, much faster than X 3. See if XV is enabled (in X4)
> with xdpyinfo and xvinfo.
>
> 2 - are your drives working with DMA enabled?
>
> 3 - what are the results of xine-check? They will almost
> always tell you what are potential bottleneck points in
> your system. To avoid it complaining, install libxine-dev.
>
> > 2. If the box is not fast enough what is (are) the critical piece(s)
> > to upgrade?
>
> There shouldn't be any need to upgrade your machine, I think.
>
> > Thanks again for the response.
>
>
> Hope this helps, Roger...
>
You were right. I'm guessing that the crux was DMA, but I also installed
the most recent css library.
Thanks.
Art Edwards
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