[MPlayer-users] Smooth DVD Playback And OpenGL

[Jason Van Cleve]

Felix,

Done all that.  (It's in this thread among all the blah, blah.)  Tried
different versions of dvdread, including mplayer's.  Problem persists. 
Thanks anyway.

--Jason V. C.


On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 04:33:27 +0200
Felix Buenemann <atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Argh, please learn writing shortter mails with less blah, blah. Who is 
> supposed to read all this?
> 
> On Friday 31 May 2002 02:30, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > To play a DVD.  This is all I really want from Linux--my one desire.
> > I've looked high and low for a suitable player, and Mplayer certainly
> > looks the most appealing to me (I like that it's GUI-independent and can
> > run in text mode).  But DVD playback (only DVDs, not AVIs) is a little
> > jerky with Mplayer (0.90pre4, built from source), just enough to be
> > irritating.  Audio output is fine (oss), but there is a very slight
> > pause in the video about every 1/3 second.  This seems to be an Mplayer
> > flaw, because I have a fast, up-to-date system, and other DVD players
> > work better.  Xine performs best for DVDs--nice and smooth using
> > dvd-nav; but Xine is not what it's cracked up to be (it can't even play
> > an MP3 on my system without hiccuping every so often), so I would much
> > rather use Mplayer.  DVD playback is also better in Ogle, though it's
> > not as good as Xine, and let's face it, Ogle's interface is a shoddy
> > piece of crud.  (All right, just an opinion. . . .
> 
> Don't use GL out on PC, use XVideo. Make sure DMA is on for the DVD (seems to 
> be the case for you from replies). And enable cache eg. -cache 8192.
> Also some versions of libdvdread cause jerky playback with mpkayer, so use 
> only recommended versions (check the docs).
> -- 
> Best Regards,
>         Atmos
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