From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 6:24:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFF837B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 06:24:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f71DO1D09315; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:24:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f71DO1X26352; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:24:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 7205723; Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:23:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3B6802F0.6517F0A9@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:24:00 -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: Joe Kelsey Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watching DVD's in -stable References: <200107302334.f6UNYub30393@ptavv.es.net> <20010731122508.V4531-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org> <15207.11084.101568.35660@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Kelsey wrote: > > As far as I understand it, in order to get effective video display from > any of the "new" players, your video card must support the XVideo > extension. In XFree86 4.1, the ATI supports this, but I believe that > the MGA driver still does not, although I cannot find a specific > reference anymore to which drivers support Xv and which do not. Does > anyone have a reference to the Xv support by driver? I think the MGA driver supports Xv. At least when I turned on the Xv display it worked for a bit (although it crashed not too long afterward). This is on a G200 with the Matrox HAL driver under Xfree86 4.1.0. Actually, all three modes worked (to varying degrees) on my system: Ximages (I guess), Xv, and SDL. The SDL display had some weird issues with looking really blocky on the bottom 3/4 of the image. Subtitles don't work at all from what I can tell. I can turn them on (and if I watch the debug output I see that it found the subtitle track), but nothing is ever displayed. The display is unfortunatly jerky. The worst part is, my CPU isn't even pegged. From what I can tell, vlc reads off a block from the DVD, de-csses it, decodes it, sends it to the display plugin, THEN reads off the next block. My DVD doesn't seek (or transfer) fast enough for it to keep up[1]. If vlc kept some sort of buffer full of blocks, I bet it would be smooth on even fairly low end systems. [1] And this is a 16x DVD using UDMA33 transfers. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| 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-stable" in the body of the message