From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Nov 19 6:55: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73D737B41A for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:54:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAJEscc07045; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:54:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAJEsbs01155; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:54:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 8313033; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:53:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3BF91D2E.16D29420@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:54:39 -0500 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long , multimedia@freebsd.org, Alexey Koptsevich Subject: Re: watching DVDs with videolan References: <20011117015607.A943@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott Long wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:46:14PM -0800, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I saw messages that videolan "works greatly" under FreeBSD and would be > > grateful for help with it! I watch DVDs with it. It works but it is damn > > slow: I see movement in separate frames, and the funny thing is that CPU > > is not 100% busy! Renicing up to -20 makes situation a bit better but not > > much. I have 850 MHz PIII on my laptop, so I think Are there any options > > which I should set in order to make it work? > > I assume that you are using an ATAPI DVD drive. Make sure that the > sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma is set to '1'. Also make sure that the output > plugin is using XVideo. If his CPU isn't 100% busy he's using XVideo. > > BTW, is vlc the best choice for watching DVD or there are better ones? > > vlc is known to be a bit slow. ogle is pretty good in terms of speed, > and it supports menus, though it's UI is not as nice as vlc. xine > apparently supports menus also, but it does not play encrypted DVD's > out-of-the-box. I have to recommend Ogle myself. It's the only thing that plays DVD acceptably on my PII-400, and it supports menus. Xine gives me nothing but grief and vlc is just slow. I consider Olge the first truely usable DVD player for FreeBSD. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message