Vlc - problems

[Gustavo Homem]

		Hello Sam:

To begin, thank you very much for the fast answer. About what you think is a
X11 problem, well, it doesn't happen with xmovie. Xmovie is also VERY slow, but
doesn't lock the system at all. It is as slow as vlc but unfortunately xmovie
doesn't read from stdin so it is not pratical, you know why...
 I will now be more precise about my system:

AMD K7 ATHLON 550 mhz

128 Mb Ram

Ati Rage 128 16 Mb 

XFree 3.3.6 with SVGA server ( the SVGA server is a fixed one
 because the original just worked with my card with noaccell option,
otherwyse the fonts were corrupted)

Color depth= 32bpp

Resolution=1024x768

The rpm I tried was the 0.1.99c (the latest rpm available )and the gz I tried
was 0.1.99d, wich is the one also available in freshmeat.org . The second has a
default smaller window , so I saw they were different versions, but one
works(slowly, and blocks the system) and the other can't do better than the
pink shadows (but doesn't block the system).

The c key produces this on stdin: (and makes no difference in the image):

yuvmmx error: unhandled function, grayscale, bpp = 32è

I would like to know if the slowness is due to unused hardware capabilities,
or to the fact that the player is not card specific. In Mswindows the movie
runs FAST in Full Screen, but I have a ATI player.  Anyway, maybe others don't
have this slowness problem, in that case I need to know what is wrong with my
system, otherwyse the problem must be corrected because we must be able to see
the movie in normal movie speed. Can you play a .vob decently in a not too
small window?

I would like to say that I really aprecciate your effort in bringing DVD playing
to Linux, it is the only barrier that disables me (and many people)to wipe my
MsWindows from the Hd. I would like to help in something if I could, I'm not a
DVD expert but I can code alright. So after a few days I will start hacking
something.

			Thanks again and keep up the good work

				Gustavo (Portugal)


A Tue, 18 Jul 2000, enviaste:
> [ message crossposted to the vlc mailing-list, more people read
>   it and might be helpful as I don't have much time right now. ]
> 
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000, gach at NO_BULSHITmega.ist.utl.pt wrote:
> > I tried the binary, rpm, from your page and it worked, but very slowly
> > and it would take over all the resources to the point that I couldn't
> > even close it before the end of the .vob file.
> 
>    This sounds to me like an X11 problem, the display flushing taking
> too much CPU time.
> 
>    Could you try with a smaller window, and see if you get the same
> problem ? For instance with `vlc --width 300 --height 225'.
> 
> > I then downloaded the sources and compiled then but it plays
> > complitely wrong, I only see some pink shadows if the movie. Can you
> > help?
> 
>    This is quite strange. Could you be more precise about your CPU, your
> X version, and your screen depth ? Also, which version of the vlc did
> you compile, was it the same as the RPMs ? Does switching color off with
> the `c' key help ?
> 
>    Also, if you tried the 0.1.99d tar.gz, beware that it is very buggy,
> especially the plugins stuff. 0.1.99c didn't have this problem but was a
> bit slower, you could try if as well.
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> Regards,
> Sam.
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