From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 12 8:19:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8616537B407; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:19:25 -0700 (PDT) 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 f8CFJ6g14468; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:19:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8CFJ5f08471; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:19:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 7696702; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:19:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3B9F7CE8.E96D1B0@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:19:04 -0400 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: bartscgr@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de Cc: Heiko Schaefer , multimedia@freebsd.org, Robert Edmonds , xine-user , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [xine-user] xine on freebsd? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Guenter Bartsch wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Heiko Schaefer wrote: > > > > has anyone got xine to play DVDs on freebsd? videolan can play DVDs on > > > freebsd.. but the playback sucks even on a 500 mhz machine. > > > > by now, xine runs pretty nicely on freebsd. however, unfortunately not > > quite as well as on linux > > > i am currently trying to find reasons for this lack of performance on > > freebsd compared to linux and am mostly stuck with the theory that agp > > support is not really the same as on linux. maybe someone who knows more > > about xfree, agp and freebsd will eventually comment on this or propose a > > solution. any input on this would be welcome... > > even when using XvShm to display the video data xfree86 uses significantly > more cpu power on freebsd than on linux (~15% on freebsd compared to ~1-3% > on linux) which further indicates there's something wrong here. > > Comments, hints, ideas very welcome, Are you using XFree 4.x? What video cards are in both boxes? Are they the same box just dual booting? I've found that XFree 3.x is a processor pig on my system, but XFree 4.x is nice and light, particularly with Xv. I'm using a Matrox G200 with the slightly older Matrox HAL. Sometimes I wonder if Linux puts more of a buffer on DVDs than FreeBSD does, given the way that most of the linux DVD programs are written (read, decode, display, continue) they tend to IO starve themselves under 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-hackers" in the body of the message