On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:04:19AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > How do you play your DVD? Can you try another program? I guess at least > mplayer, xine and totem should do it. >
I use ogle, xine, totem, vlc: always the same problem > Also, do you know which video output you are using? For instance, > mplayer can do "mplayer -vo xv <file>" or "mplayer -vo <x11>" to switch > between XVideo (kind of hardware support) and X11 (more software support). > I use xv video driver; by the way, I run "top" during DVD playback for the old Debian system (where the problem doesn't ooccur) setting xv as the video driver in the xine configuration; these are the average values I see in the CPU column: Xorg ---> 45% xine ---> 35% and, of course, the playback is fine Setting xshm as video driver, gives me: xine ---> 64% Xorg ---> 35% and, of course, the playback is slow, as the processor in almost completely saturated On the contrary, in Lenny, setting the xv video driver gives: Xorg ---> 64% xine ---> 35% and, as known, the playback is slow (saturated CPU) Setting xshm, gives: xine ---> 64% Xorg ---> 35% So, while the results are almost the same for xshm (no hardware support) in the two cases, they are different for xv; Xorg in Lenny demands more work to the CPU than it does in older debian systems. > > I see a reference to gatos in your log, did you actually patch your ati > driver with the gatos patch to get TV support? Are you actually using > it? Can you try without this patch, just in case it breaks something? > No, I didn't patch anything (and I'm not interested in TV support), I use 100% pure Debian packages (apart, as you can easily guess, the non-official deb package for the libdvdcss library) Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]