From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Oct 19 2:28:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1144837B403 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 02:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f9J9S5l57173 ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:28:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id LAA75251 ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:28:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:28:00 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Playing DVD Message-ID: <20011019112800.A74516@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20011018173022.VLVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011018173022.VLVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there>; from mekanix@privat.dk on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:33:08PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 Bjarne Wichmann Petersen said on Oct 18, 2001 at 19:33:08: > *Xine* > > Isn't it possible to compile it with decss-support (libdvdread?)? It's possible to get libdvdcss support. See http://members.home.nl/mphm.janssen/linuxvideo/linuxvideo.html I have it working, but my sound is out of sync with the video (strangely, the sound lags the video by around 1-2 secs so it's not that the machine is too slow for video playing). I think, but I'm not sure, that this started happening only after I upgraded XFree86 to a CVS version; but other software has no problem. I'll give the new version of xine (0.9.2) a shot soon. As to the sound -- the scratchy sound seems like something I've seen, ie the freebsd driver has problems upsampling/downsampling sound, and when downsampling it gives exactly the sort of noise you describe. (When upsampling it only gives a slight but annoying distortion.) I suspect your dvd outputs audio at 48000 Hz while your sound card accepts at some different frequency like 44100 Hz. In such cases I use kde's artsd to up/downsample. (Make sure it's running with the sample rate set to whatever's correct for your sound card, then start your audio program using artsdsp, eg artsdsp xine or, when possible, configure the program to directly output sound to artsd) > *Videolan* > > Nice one with decss. Sound, as poor as Xine though. Could be same problem as above. On my machine videolan's performance is extremely poor. mplayer and xine are far better. > mplayer have *almost* become my prefered dvd-player if it wasn't for one big > showstopper: I can't select another audio-stream, I'm stuck with whatever Answered already by others... > And then there is the same widescreen issues as with vlc with a twist. If I > run mplayer with -gui I loose widescreen, but it still decodes for > widescreen, so I'm getting long faces. You seem to be right. So don't use the gui :) - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message