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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:56:07 -0700
From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To: Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu>
Cc: question@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: watching DVDs with videolan
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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.

> 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.

Scott

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