Voodoo 3 working better

[David Gómez]

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Rich Birch wrote:

> Hi Dave.
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> No I didn't do anything in my xvideo config. Maybe the quality of mine now
> matches yours, but mine is a damn sight better than it was previously. I do
> still get jumps, but only small ones and a lot less frequently.

I think you're right, we're achieved the same quality, but not the totally
smooth that another people looks to have obtained with another video
cards. As i told you before, i think that maybe the bottleneck is in tfdx
Xfree driver, but i don't know much about Xservers so this is only a
guess. I was trying to use Xine too, and it looks faster, at least for me
with a Voodoo3, but the downside it hasn't support for CSS. There is a
module out there to add support, but it looks a bit obsolete and I cannot
make it work. In the other hard, vlc support for browsing chapters,
languages and subtitles is far better than xine. Sad we cannot get real
smooth video playing.
For those that are reading this list, has anybody configured vlc with
a Voodoo3 and obtained real smooth DVD playing ? If so, please let us know
what config did you use to get it.

David

>
> Does vlc say 'xvideo' in the title of the playing window? Mine always said
> x11 previously, but now says xvideo, and sdl works too although for some
> reason it only fills half the screen when fullscreen is selected unless you
> set preferences for the windowed screen to the fullscreen size and then
> flick to fullscreen. There appears to be little difference between sdl and
> xvideo, but i'd say the sdl is slightly worse if anything.
>
> Rich
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Gómez" <davidge at jazzfree.com>
> To: <vlc at videolan.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 working better
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> Hi,
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> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rich Birch wrote:
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> > I guy replied to my post (i don't remember who) saying he had the same
> setup
>
> I'm the guy ;)
>
> > as me and had enabled xvideo but it was no better , but i thought i had
> > xvideo setup correctly as it appeared when i ran 'xdpyinfo'. However, i
> was
> > trying to get kingpin to work when i came across the DRI website, and
> since
> > following their instructions to get dri setup, xvideo output now works.
> >
> > So I'm quite happy now. Although perfection would always nice :-)
> >
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> I would like to know if you did some special in your xvideo config. I have
> enabled xvideo, dri and vlc has good quality, but it's not smooth because
> every half second or so i notice leaps in the video stream.
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> David Gómez
>
> "The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
>  whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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David Gómez

"The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
 whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra