Voodoo 3 working better

[Rich Birch]

Philo,

I haven't had chance to watch a dvd all the way through since i got it
working better. I watched a couple when it way quite jerky and i did not
experience the bad sync problems you've described, just frequent small jerks
all the way through. The sound also seemed to be fine, although i've noticed
since i got xvideo and sdl working i get little clicks every few seconds.
This  may be an issue with 0.2.82 rather than xvideo etc, i'll have to try
using 0.2.83 to see if they disappear.

You don't say wether you're using x11/xvideo/sdl for output. If xvideo/sdl
aren't working then you should try setting them up to see if your problems
are fixed.

Hope this helps,
Rich


----- Original Message -----
From: "PhiloVivero" <phiviv at hacklab.net>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 working better


> I have some questions for everyone, esp. Rich and Dave.
>
> I have a very fast system with a *LOT* of RAM (Athlon 800, 396MB) and a
TNT2.
>
> I will be able to watch upwards of about 5-10 minutes of movie with only
minor
> issues:
>
>  - sound doesn't quite sync with video ever (it's close most of the time)
>  - sound wobbles, only noticable when music is playing
>
> After several minutes, however, the video will get real choppy for about
3-4
> seconds (painful) after which the sound is way out-of-sync with the video
> (usually way behind) and so you'll hear everyone talking all high-pitched
for
> about 20 seconds while it re-syncs.
>
> My hypothesis 1: I'm running out of RAM as the video stream is cached, and
> once the disk starts paging, the 3-4 seconds of nastiness ensues. It then
gets
> a grip and gets back on track for a while.
>
> My hypothesis 2: No-one ever gets perfectly sync'd sound/video (is this
> true?).
>
> My hypothesis 3: No-one ever gets non-choppy playback throughout a whole
movie
> unless they just don't have a swap partition enabled (is this true?).
>
> It'd be good to find out if I'm the only one experiencing these symptoms
> (ie: I need to work on my system) or if everyone does (ie: I need to work
on
> VLC).
>
> Any answers?
>
> --
> PhiloVivero
>
>
> Rich Birch wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ----- 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
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rich Birch wrote:
> >
> > > 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 :-)
> > >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > David Gómez
> >
> > "The question of whether computers can think is just like the question
of
> >  whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
>
>
>
>