Very jittery video - any solutions?

[Jeffrey Cobb]

Have you tried compiling with SDL installed?  It's a video accelerator.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: David Mills <djm at cs.mu.oz.au>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:24 AM
Subject: Very jittery video - any solutions?


>
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed 2.91 or VideoLan.  The picture is very jittery.  When
> using -v I get the following:
>
> > /usr/local/bin/vlc -V xvideo -v
> VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.91_2001-12-13 Ourumov - (C)1996-2001
VideoLAN
>
> module: browsing `.'
> module: browsing `plugins'
> module: browsing `/usr/local/lib/videolan/vlc'
> module: locking module `gtk'
> intf: interface initialized
> input: playlist item `dvd:/dev/dvd'
> module: locking module `dvd'
> module: locking module `motionmmxext'
> module: locking module `idctmmxext'
> module: locking module `downmixsse'
> module: locking module `imdctsse'
> vpar: no vout present, spawning one
> module: locking module `x11'
> aout: no aout present, spawning one
> module: locking module `dsp'
> vout: video display initialized (720x576, 16/16 bpp)
> module: locking module `yuvmmx'
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f700)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f610)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f570)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f570)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f5c0)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f700)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f5c0)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f6b0)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f5c0)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f610)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f570)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f5c0)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f660)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f660)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f750)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f660)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f750)
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x818f700)
> module: unlocking module `idctmmxext'
> module: unlocking module `motionmmxext'
> module: unlocking module `downmixsse'
> module: unlocking module `imdctsse'
> module: unlocking module `dvd'
> module: unlocking module `gtk'
> module: unlocking module `yuvmmx'
> module: unlocking module `x11'
> module: unlocking module `dsp'
> intf: program terminated
>
> Is there anything I can do to improve things?  How can I verify that
xvideo
> is working?  I have attempted to activate dma but get the following
response:
>
> # hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hdc
>
> /dev/hdc:
>  setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 1
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  I/O support  =  1 (32-bit)
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
>
> I'm running SuSE Linux 7.2 on a 600MHz Pentium with 256MB RAM, a 32MB
NVidia
> TNT2 card and a SoundBlaster Live card.
>
> > uname -a
> Linux bright 2.4.4 #11 Wed Nov 7 17:49:07 EST 2001 i686 unknown
>
> Thanks,
>
> David.
>
>