From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Nov 17 12:42:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946FA37B417 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:42:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23618; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:42:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [162.62.64.10]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22530; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:28:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com (hollin [162.62.149.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13381; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:42:45 -0700 (MST) Received: (from scottl@localhost) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fAHKesS04211; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:40:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:40:54 -0700 From: Scott Long To: Gianluca Sordiglioni Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU power for DVD Message-ID: <20011117134054.B97128@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> References: <3BF66025.8C1D3B17@parkinson.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BF66025.8C1D3B17@parkinson.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i 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 On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:03:33PM +0100, Gianluca Sordiglioni wrote: > 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. This is the key. Of course Windows will do better when it has the hardware decoder. That's the reason your laptop has one; 500MHz just isn't enough horsepower unfortunately. Scott > > -- > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message