Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:12:40 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: playing DVD works Message-ID: <20020327141240.C45756@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: Michael Nottebrock's message [Re: playing DVD works] as of Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:42:09PM %2B0100
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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
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