vlc performance troubles

[Bill Piety]

On my 900mhz T-bird w/4.0.3 I find that using  --vout SDL gives playback
that's quite viewable. TNT2 32-meg using the Nvidia driver but original RH7
kernel. I did rebuild the rpm from src, as I did with SDL. I use the Alsa
drivers on my system but haven't tested sound options yet, using whatever
default vlc finds.

Here's a dummy question - hdparm settings for my HD are kept, ie dma, yet
not kept for my DVD - I must re-enable dma each time I play a movie. What am
I missing here?

-----Original Message-----
From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org]On Behalf
Of Michael Shapiro
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:04 AM
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: Re: vlc performance troubles


Try using the SDL video module and the esd sound module.

* Tom (tom at lemuria.org) wrote:
> I've got serious performance troubles with vlc (0.2.73) on a machine
> that really should have enough power.
>
> data:
>
> vlc 0.2.73
> athlon 1.2 ghz, geforce 2
> linux 2.4.0
> xfree 4.0.3
>
> using xvideo output at 800x600 (fullscreen)
>
> after some time of playing, video gets choppy, sound lags behind and
> has a pretty bad quality. vmstat reveals that vlc is using 90-95% of
> the cpu.
> my guess is that xvideo doesn't use hardware acceleration. is that
> correct? if so, I guess given that even on a high-end machine it can't
> play a dvd in viewable quality, it should display a big, red warning.
>
>
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>
--mike
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