Very jittery video - any solutions?

[Jeffrey Cobb]

Next time you compile try adding the SDL option to "./configure" and tell it
where SDL is.  This is my log entry for installing DVD:
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Installation of DVD player (Video Lan Client):

Files needed:
vlc-0.2.91.tar.gz
libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
sdl-1.2.3.tar.gz
decoder-libcss-0.1.0.tar.gz (This isn't really necessary because VLC has its
own)

Install libdvdread first using
./configure
make
make install

Install sdl the same way.

Install vlc (Video Lan Client) like so:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-sdl-config-path=/usr/bin --enable-gnome
make vlc
make install

(I didn't do this before and it crashed)

When SDL is installed it creates "sdl-config" files in two or three paths,
/usr/bin is one of them.

See the INSTALL file and vlc docs for details on compiling VLC.
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Hope this helps.

Take Care,
Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: David Mills <djm at cs.mu.oz.au>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Very jittery video - any solutions?


> I double checked the output of "configure --enable-sdl" and it says
>
> checking for sdl12-config... (cached) no
> checking for sdl11-config... (cached) no
> checking for sdl-config... (cached) no
> configure: error: I couldn't find the SDL package. You can download libSDL
> from http://www.libsdl.org/, or configure with --disable-sdl. Have a nice
day.
>
> So I'm downloading it and will try again.
>
> David.
>
> On Friday 14 December 2001 06:53, you wrote:
> > 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.
>
>