[MPlayer-dev-eng] [LUSER]1.randomly pause problem 2. how to do hardware overlay

[Ivan Kalvachev]

First. This post belongs to mplayer-users. It is not even advanced users
(users that have already read the manuals)

douglasliu said:
> Dear all:
>
> We'v got two questions:
>
> question 1: randomly pause during DVD playback
> 	CPU:Intel P4
> 	video card:ATI  Rage XL
> 	OS: Redhat 8.0
> Random pause is obvious, every pause last for about half second when
> image is  still (can't refresh by new).
> After we opened DVD driver's DMA and enabled cache, the situation is
> better.  But it still occure randomly (with same machine , ms window is
> good to play  same DVD).
> It puzzled us .  what mplayer's doing during the pause time? How to
> resolve ?
You need to add stream cache by e.g. mplayer -cache 32768 dvd://....
As you have noticed it is reading problem. Mplayer is waiting kernel, that
is waiting the DVD itself to get fresh data.
There are more options you may play with hdparm.

>
> question 2 : how to get hardware overlay
> 	video card : NVIDIA GForce4 MX440
> does this card support hardware overlay?
> if so , how to code programme?
> I have no idea, any piece of word would be helpful
Overlay is supported by XFree86 4.3.0 and Nvidia binnary drivers 43.63
(previus versions may also support it)
you need to add -vo xv option.
Pleace send your next questions to mplayer-users.
And first read the manual. There are people that are working hard to keep it
up to date, and you siply ignore their work.

>
> thanks anyway
>
> Best Regards.
> Douglas
> July 10, 2003
>

Best Regards
   Ivan Kalvachev
  iive