Re: Divx and DVD playback

[csj <csj@zapo.net>]

At Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:16:04 -0700,
tb.nospam@comcast.net wrote:

[...]

> It took me quite a bit longer to get MPlayer not to segfault on
> my 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop with a Chips & Technologies
> graphics chip.  (It played Movies fine in XP -- it's old el
> crapo driver issues).  For instance, I had to tweak X quite a
> bit, *and* use the SDL compat libraries to avoid the **YOUR
> SYSTEM IS TOO SLOW** messages or segfaults.  It took a couple
> weeks, but it finally played DivX like a champ.  (Well, audio
> drifted quite a bit.  500mhz P3 w/ old as hell graphics -- just
> barely up to specs).

mplayer -framedrop

Did fine on a P2 350 with an old nVidia TNT Vanta (The system was
brand new when I started using it).  I can even play under the
framebuffer.