From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Nov 17 5: 3:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.libero.it (smtp1.libero.it [193.70.192.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2209137B405 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 05:03:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from parkinson.it (151.20.14.88) by smtp1.libero.it (6.0.032) id 3BF1798A000DB684 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:03:31 +0100 Message-ID: <3BF66025.8C1D3B17@parkinson.it> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:03:33 +0100 From: Gianluca Sordiglioni X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: CPU power for DVD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 My machine is an Athlon 500Mhz, ATA DVD, ATI All-In-Wonder 128, SoundBlaster Live 1024, FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE, XFree86 4.1 compiled with XVideo, etc., using ati2 drivers from GATOS project. I always get frame drops playing DVDs, even using different software players. I tried ogle, mplayer, xine, and others. Even with ogle, the fastest player I tried, I can't get more than 20 FPS. Audio seems good (I use newpcm), no problems. I would like to know if my machine is fast enought to decompress DVD video, or perhaps I have some hardware or software problem. The ATA driver is using DMA to drive my DVD, so I can't see any bottleneck other than insufficient CPU power. It goes without saying that under Windows I have no problems; but, however, under Windows the video drivers can use the MPEG2-decoder chip on the graphic card to perform the task. -- Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia (GUFI) http://www.gufi.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message