From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Mar 25 13:44:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from square.cnd.mcgill.ca (square.CND.McGill.CA [132.206.114.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08AF37B404 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mat@localhost) by square.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA46517; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:44:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mat) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:44:10 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: "Thomas E. Zander" Cc: Mathew Kanner , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: playing DVD works Message-ID: <20020325164410.B45756@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20020325155423.A45756@cnd.mcgill.ca> <20020325212121.GH34217@f113.hadiko.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Thomas E. Zander's message [Re: playing DVD works] as of Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:21:21PM +0100 Organization: I speak for myself, operating in Montreal, CANADA 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 On Mar 25, Thomas E. Zander wrote: > On Mon, 25. Mar 2002, at 15:54 -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote > according to [playing DVD works]: > There are still informations that playing DVDs doesn't work? Where? > The base system supports everything that's necessary since 2001-09-25. > mplayer from ports does fine for most people, and ogle does fine, too. Notes to the list occasionally say that people can't play DVDs, I just wanted something out there to say otherwise. > > Without the cache, the A/V sync gets really bad and I get the > > standard mplayer "your machine is too slow" message. For the record, > > my machine is a dual celeron 500. > > This is interesting...you don't get full frame rate without the -cache > option?? Indeed. > A celeron 500 should be fast enough. The 'dual' doesn't matter here, > mplayer doesn't do threading, so it runs on only one CPU. Actually, I think is forks another process to cache. > Which graphics board do you use to watch? Matrox 400. --Mat -- Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? Pinky: Um... I think so, Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message