System Requirements

[PhiloVivero]

Samuel Hocevar wrote:

> > What sort of CPU would I need for full screen playback on the clients with a
> > decent video card?
>
>    I'd suggest a 500MHz CPU. 400 might be enough, but you might
> lose some frames on high detail action scenes, so you'll be safe
> with 500. And MMX is definitely a must-have.

I have:

VideoLan:

     VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.62 Urumov - (c)1996-2000 VideoLAN
     vout: video display initialized (720x576, 32/32 bpp)
     input: opening dvd:/dev/dvd
     vout: YUV acceleration activated

SYSTEM:

     model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
     cpu MHz         : 807.207
     cache size      : 256 KB
                  total       used       free     shared    buffers
     cached
     Mem:        320140     315432       4708          0     111732
     97840
     -/+ buffers/cache:     105860     214280
     Swap:       401616      99260     302356

DVD:

     CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD6240E (6x)

VideoCard:

     VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TnT2 [NV5] (rev 17)
     NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769
     NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769

And I get crappy playback about 3-20 fps. Sometimes it will pause for 2-3 seconds
in the middle of playback, and after I've watched 20 minutes or so of the DVD, I
get nifty errors:

     PES trashed - fifo full !
     PES trashed - fifo full !
     Segmentation fault

I'm currently trying to figure out how to get the DXR/3 decoder card working so
maybe I'll get some decent framerates. Maybe no segfault, too.

http://faemalia.org/do/pvwiki/show/GettingDVDWorkingUnderLinux

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philovivero