From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Mar 27 11:12:45 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 4389837B419 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mat@localhost) by square.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA56425 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:12:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mat) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:12:40 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: playing DVD works Message-ID: <20020327141240.C45756@cnd.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Michael Nottebrock's message [Re: playing DVD works] as of Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:42:09PM +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 26, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Mathew Kanner wrote: > > Just a note to the list to say that playing DVDs does indeed > > work. I borrowed my friends Austin Powers DVD and tried to play it. > > I installed the CVS version of mplayer (from last night) > > > > mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/acd1c -cache 20960 > > I never knew that the "cache" parameter existed. :) I already get smooth > playback with -cache 512, but I really wonder why the software needs to > precache in order to achieve full framerate. Hm, I just noticed that a small buffer (like 512) works ok for me aswell, maybe the 20mb buffer was overkill :) Just note that when you use the cache, mplayer has two processes, I presume one is to cache, the other is to play, this would give a better concurrency. --Mat -- Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering? Pinky: I think so, Brain, but how will we get a pair of Abe Vigoda's pants? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message