On 13/12/05, Peter Osterberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:28, Mark J. Small wrote: > > > >> On December 13, 2005 08:31 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote: > >> > >>> These work for me. -V xshm got rid of my shaky playback. --no-splash > >>> and --no-logo do what they look like they do. > >>> > >>> DVD: > >>> xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s > >>> > >>> Video: > >>> xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo %s > >>> > >> Hmmm the xine docs claim that xshm is a lot slower than xv. Does real > >> world > >> experience say otherwize? > >> > > > > xshm will use software to scale the video for the current screen size, > > so it will tax your CPU a lot more. Depending on how much processing > > power you have, it may stutter (or it may not, but will take up a lot > > of CPU). > > > > Any of the hardware-accelerated scaling methods would be better (xv, > > xvmc, opengl, sdl ). If one is shaky, try another. At work, I have a > > Nvidia Vanta LT that doesn't like to do Xv really well, but using > > OpenGL output works just fine. > I'll try 'em all. I have a Radeon 9600 and a P4 3GHz so I guess that > performance should be good enough. I only run 800x600 24 bit. > > > xshm looks like crap in my box, hopefully at least one driver will look > better! It should work since I managed to get rid of this problem when > watching ordinary TV.
Assuming you have the ATI fglrx driver installed and xvinfo states xv support is present, try using -V xv in xine. This cured the xine playback issues I had on a Radeon 9100 system. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
