On Mar 10 2002, user list wrote:
> Thanks for responding to my question.
(...)
> I have upgraded my box to woody (testing) and I've installed mplayer.
That's good. Did you also use xine for watching the movies?
I'd recommend that you install xine-dvdnav as it will provide
you dvd menus.
Try also to get libdvdcss1 from Videolan's site
<http://www.videolan.org>, since Debian cannot distribute it.
It will help you if you have CSS encrypted DVDs.
> I don't remember a liblame0.
Indeed, that's because liblame0 is not a part of Debian. You
would have to get the sources from the lame project
<http://lame.sf.net/>.
Unfortunately, the current stable version of lame (3.91)
doesn't have a nice division of packages and lacks liblame0.
After the 3.91 release, I joined the project as the Debian
packaging developer and I already included (what I feel is) a
nicer division of the package, including liblame0 and
liblame0-dev (needed for compiling mplayer/mencoder with MP3
support).
But the lack of it isn't going to cause your computer to be
slow. It will only mean that won't be able to create AVI files
with MP3-encoded tracks, as far as I know.
> I ask because the movies are pretty slow. Here are the specs. of my
> box
>
> 600 MHz Athlon
> 756 M CRAM
> Matrox Millennium G200 (16 MB)
> 12x DVD-CD rom drive
>
> 30GB Hard disk
No, it shouldn't be slow. In fact, it should be faster than my
computer, I think. Mine is a 600MHz Duron, with 128MB of RAM
and a Matrox G400 (16MB also).
> Two general questions:
>
> 1. If this is a fast enough box, what are the switches that I need
> to improve speed. I can't (or don't know how to) access DGA. Is
> this important?
Well, first of all, install xine on your machine. It is easier
to see if everything is working correctly with xine than with
mplayer. After you make it work with xine, then use mplayer if
you want to.
Some general guidelines:
1 - are you running XFree86 4 with XV support? This is
probably the most critical part of the system. X 4 is
much, much faster than X 3. See if XV is enabled (in X4)
with xdpyinfo and xvinfo.
2 - are your drives working with DMA enabled?
3 - what are the results of xine-check? They will almost
always tell you what are potential bottleneck points in
your system. To avoid it complaining, install libxine-dev.
> 2. If the box is not fast enough what is (are) the critical piece(s)
> to upgrade?
There shouldn't be any need to upgrade your machine, I think.
> Thanks again for the response.
Hope this helps, Roger...
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