Re: DVD playback peformance

talon_at_lpthe.jussieu.fr
Date: 01/12/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:45:36 +0000 (UTC)

Winston Smith <winston@nospam.bsdbox.com> wrote:
> Hi,

> Am I asking too much for my Athlon XP-1400 (with nVidia TNT2 32Mb AGP card
> and 256 Mb RAM) to playback DVD movies without choppiness? I've tried
> both Mplayer and ogle, but get pauses in the video stream every few
> seconds.

> I've tried the following optimisations:-

> * Recompiled kernel with USER_LDT and CPU_ENABLE_SSE options
> * Added hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" and hw.ata.ata_dma="1" to loader.conf
> * Added kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864 and kern.ipc.shmall=32768 to sysctl.conf

> I get the best performance from ogle - but I still get jerky playback.
> Should smooth playback be possible on this machine spec???

I have smooth playback on a Duron 650. However my video card is a GeForce 256,
doesn't know the impact. It is important that xv be supported.

> TIA 

-- 
Michel Talon

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