More about XVideo

[David Gómez]

Hi all,

The good news is that, as Michael said, xvideo support for Voodoo3 worked
fine with XFree 4.1.0, so i downloaded it, and now the '-V xvideo' is
working as expected.
The bad news is that my speed improvement is 0. Same as with SDL/x11 (Yes,
now i can get full screen video, but in the other hand i get cores every
minute).
So, where is the bottleneck, where frames are lost? This is the vlc output
when playing some dvd:

[...]
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8be8)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8be8)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8be8)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8be8)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8d28)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8d28)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8d28)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8be8)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8be8)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8c38)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8be8)
vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8c38)


mpeg2 decompression has good quality, but it's not smooth, around every
second or you can notice leaps in the frames. I have a pIII and enough ram
so i don't think is that.


Now, to everyone in the list, has anybody achieve _really_ smooth dvd
playing with vlc ? and if so, which videocard/vlc config were you using?



David Gómez

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