Guenter Bartsch wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Heiko Schaefer wrote:
>
> > > has anyone got xine to play DVDs on freebsd? videolan can play DVDs on
> > > freebsd.. but the playback sucks even on a 500 mhz machine.
> >
> > by now, xine runs pretty nicely on freebsd. however, unfortunately not
> > quite as well as on linux
>
> > i am currently trying to find reasons for this lack of performance on
> > freebsd compared to linux and am mostly stuck with the theory that agp
> > support is not really the same as on linux. maybe someone who knows more
> > about xfree, agp and freebsd will eventually comment on this or propose a
> > solution. any input on this would be welcome...
>
> even when using XvShm to display the video data xfree86 uses significantly
> more cpu power on freebsd than on linux (~15% on freebsd compared to ~1-3%
> on linux) which further indicates there's something wrong here.
>
> Comments, hints, ideas very welcome,
Are you using XFree 4.x? What video cards are in both boxes? Are they
the
same box just dual booting? I've found that XFree 3.x is a processor
pig on
my system, but XFree 4.x is nice and light, particularly with Xv.
I'm using a Matrox G200 with the slightly older Matrox HAL.
Sometimes I wonder if Linux puts more of a buffer on DVDs than FreeBSD
does,
given the way that most of the linux DVD programs are written (read,
decode,
display, continue) they tend to IO starve themselves under FreeBSD.
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