Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:59:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Schaefer <hschaefer@fto.de> To: Rahul Siddharthan <Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr> Cc: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>, <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG>, <xine-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: xine performance on freebsd. was: Re: [xine-user] Re: [Xpert]XvShmslower on freebsd than on line Message-ID: <20011005204728.B75925-100000@daneel.foundation.hs> In-Reply-To: <20011005195000.A27373@lpt.ens.fr>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hey everyone, > > BTW: Has anyone managed to get xine to play a DVD or AVI recently? The > > latest port seems to be annoyingly broken for me. Is there some magic > > you have to do to get it working right? > > The latest xine port plays AVIs (720x5xx resolution) fine for me, > using xshm. Using Xv I have problems, which are related to the > XFree86 driver for my card (trident cyberblade) not to FreeBSD. > However, it plays, it's just that the picture is broken in a very > strange way. Lower resolution videos play fine with Xv too. xshm is > basically unusable in full screen mode, but I can use mplayer with dga > to get high quality full-screen playback. I haven't tried playing > dvds. I agree about the MPAA, but my main peeve is not the encryption > per se (we have decss in various ways), it's the zoning at the > hardware level (RPC 2). Given that I'm now in zone 2, and am likely > to move to at least 2 other zones in the next few years, there's no > way I'm investing in DVDs without figuring out how to make my drive > region-free. it seems that the region check in the drives isn't implemented very reliably... the people of videolan (who made the libdvdread and libdvdcss libraries) claim that their code bypasses this lock with most drives (without any firmware hacks and such). however - of course i haven't tried this and don't know about the legal status of all this. most of all i do not advise to use or pursue any of this. i'm just passing along claims that i read on the web. of course i am against breaking laws and such... if there are any that prohibit any of this. well... stupid politics aside: by now it is more or less clear that xine's performance issues on freebsd are definitely related to how xine ueses the pthreads implementation of freebsd. i have contacted Daniel Eischen about this and hope for guidance :-) so i am confident that within the next weeks xine might also become the video killer app for freebsd ;) Xv drivers are of course another matter entirely. the situation on freebsd is even a bit worse than on linux. although it's getting better. the xfree project is doing great stuff... not much that can be done about that, except buying hardware of vendors that support open-sourced (free) drivers for the important features of their cards. cheers, Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011005204728.B75925-100000>