Re: dvd playback problems and questions
-- Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> wrote
(on Monday, 06 January 2003, 04:13 PM -0500):
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> >I discovered that Xine worked with the Xshm video mode, but it, too, was
> >choppy. I had trouble getting ogle to work in gui mode, so I compiled
> >and installed by hand, and that worked. The video is still choppy, but
> >less so than when I used the debian package (wierd).
> >
>
> I've found XV video mode to work best, you might want to try that.
Except that, if you read the original post, Xv mode was crashing my
machine... :-(
I found that another problem I was having is that I'd set my bit-depth
to 24 instead of 16 -- I've seen vast improvements in playback since
that switch. It's still a bit choppy, but then again, I'm not planning
on watching whole movies on the machine (yet ;-0 ).
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
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