More about XVideo

[David Gómez]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Jeremy Bailin wrote:

> > So, where is the bottleneck, where frames are lost? This is the vlc output
> > when playing some dvd:
> > [...]
> > vout warning: late picture skipped (0x81a8be8)
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Could be the DVD drive. Is DMA enabled? (do an hdparm /dev/dvd).

I've tried that, and tweaked with all the parameters from my dvd, but
nothing changes. The DVD is fine, it worked flawlessly in windows.



David Gómez

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