problem w/DVD movies in Linux
I'm running SuSE 7.2 Personal, Nvidia TNT2 M64 with Nvidia's hardware drivers and a 1.7GHZ P4 with an IDE 16x DVD-ROM drive from Pioneer. Despite all of that hardware, which makes the "gear" benchmark and other programs scream, when I run Ogle to view an encrypted DVD movie (yes I got it legally, from a video rental place - no flames please.) it playes very jerkily. Xine wouldn't play it at all; I assume because of encryption. A WinXP program that playes DVDs manages to play it perfectly well. How do I tweak SuSE / get a better program / whatever in order for DVDs to play?
Not sure what your problem is... I am running 7.2 (no tweaks necessary) on my Athlon (650 MHz) with a GeForce 2 MX which plays DVD's just fine with Xine... encrypted or otherwise. You mention gears... what frame rate does gears report when you run it? - Herman Joshua Lee wrote:
I'm running SuSE 7.2 Personal, Nvidia TNT2 M64 with Nvidia's hardware drivers and a 1.7GHZ P4 with an IDE 16x DVD-ROM drive from Pioneer. Despite all of that hardware, which makes the "gear" benchmark and other programs scream, when I run Ogle to view an encrypted DVD movie (yes I got it legally, from a video rental place - no flames please.) it playes very jerkily. Xine wouldn't play it at all; I assume because of encryption. A WinXP program that playes DVDs manages to play it perfectly well. How do I tweak SuSE / get a better program / whatever in order for DVDs to play?
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On Wednesday 14 November 2001 11:54 pm, Herman Knief wrote:
Not sure what your problem is... I am running 7.2 (no tweaks necessary) on my Athlon (650 MHz) with a GeForce 2 MX which plays DVD's just fine with Xine... encrypted or otherwise.
Xine wouldn't play it at all. I used Ogle, which claims to work with encrypted DVD movies, it played it, but a little jerky.
You mention gears... what frame rate does gears report
Approx 480-628 FPS. (That's so high that I'm wondering what's going on with gears; this is normal?) Other 3D apps such as Tuxracer seem to work fine, incidentally.
On November 15, 2001 01:40 am, you wrote:
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 11:54 pm, Herman Knief wrote:
Not sure what your problem is... I am running 7.2 (no tweaks necessary) on my Athlon (650 MHz) with a GeForce 2 MX which plays DVD's just fine with Xine... encrypted or otherwise.
Xine wouldn't play it at all. I used Ogle, which claims to work with encrypted DVD movies, it played it, but a little jerky.
You mention gears... what frame rate does gears report
Approx 480-628 FPS. (That's so high that I'm wondering what's going on with gears; this is normal?) Other 3D apps such as Tuxracer seem to work fine, incidentally.
That may be high for Quake, but gears uses no texturing or other features and has a very small viewport. I get similar results with a Matrox G450. That said, 3D and DVD have absolutely nothing to do with each other. I've seen great video and bad 3d on the same setup as well as vice-versa. The X extension you should be paying attention to is XV. I get the best DVD results using mplayer with the '-vo sdl' switch. SDL, in turn, uses the XV extension. I've even done this efficiently over NFS with a non-encrypted DVD. How cool is that? I couldn't figure out a way to do it for encrypted ones because of the necessary IOCTLs. Oh well. -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com
Have you tried enabling DMA for the dvd player? 7.2 has this disabled by default. try hdparm -d 1 /dev/whateveryourdvdplayeris On Thursday 15 November 2001 05:06, Joshua Lee wrote:
I'm running SuSE 7.2 Personal, Nvidia TNT2 M64 with Nvidia's hardware drivers and a 1.7GHZ P4 with an IDE 16x DVD-ROM drive from Pioneer. Despite all of that hardware, which makes the "gear" benchmark and other programs scream, when I run Ogle to view an encrypted DVD movie (yes I got it legally, from a video rental place - no flames please.) it playes very jerkily. Xine wouldn't play it at all; I assume because of encryption. A WinXP program that playes DVDs manages to play it perfectly well. How do I tweak SuSE / get a better program / whatever in order for DVDs to play?
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