limited playback due to slow machine?

[Gildas Bazin]

On Monday 30 July 2001 9:11 am, Matthew Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> A friend recommended the vlc player to me and I've been playing around
> with various options trying to get the playback to run smoothly. I have a
> Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop, 366MHz with 128Mb, and an ATI Rage Pro card in
> it. I have libdvdcss 0.0.2 and vlc 0.2.81 compiled with everything as an
> include, no plugins.
> 
> Although there is a Windows player that works smoothly, is this system too
> slow for Linux playback? I've tried twiddling hdparms of my /dev/dvd but
> no luck. Audio is fine but picture has 3Hz jerked images to it.
> 

The only way you can have "acceptable" performance with your system, would be 
to use vlc's Xvideo plugin. But to be able to use this plugin, you need XFree 
4 and a driver for your graphics card that supports the Xvideo extension ( 
don't know if one exists for the ATI Rage Pro )

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Gildas