-- Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 06 January 2003, 01:57 PM -0600): > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > What dvd playing software are other debian users using? anybody > > encounter any of these problems/deficiences? If so, were you able to > > correct them? how? > > I tend to use Ogle, but Xine is nice too. > > I get a bit of a chop with DVD playback on one of my systems, but I > suspect that it is because the CPU is only a PIII 600. I have another > system with the same DVD drive that plays smoothly (AMD K7 1Ghz). > > Are you running KDE/Gnome or a simple window manager? Also, are you > using the stock nv driver or the binary nvidia driver? Okay, I've got my machine back up, and I had listed the video card incorrectly -- it's an S3 SuperSavage series, and I have X configured to use the savage driver.
I run blackbox with ROX-Filer as a pinboard, so there should be few if any memory problems due to the wm/desktop environment. The only other apps I've had open while testing are gkrellm, mutt, slrn, and bbpager. 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'm thinking I might need to spring for a better video card, or at least one with plenty of memory for itself. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
