Hardware Requirements?

[Jonathan Arnoldussen]

I have found that it depends on the film.  Some of the DVDs I've run 
played smoothly, but most play choppy, though its been getting better 
with every release.  My biggest gripe is the audio, which sounds like 
crap.  I run VLC on BeOS, 1Ghz AMD, 512Mb RAM, Encore 6x, etc. and the 
video is usually choppy and the audio is always weird.  I've read in 
this list many times suggestions for starting VLC with different flags 
to get it to work smoothly, but I'm waiting for it to work properly 
from the GUI, as it should.
   -Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: the Edward Blevins <thedward at barsoom.net>
Date: Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:03 am
Subject: Hardware Requirements?

> What kind of hardware should I expect to need in order to get
> good quality (not jerky, 30fps or so) playback?
> 
> I've got a 550Mhz Athlon, and plenty of RAM; Debian Linux,
> with kernel 2.4.2-ac19; Voodoo3, with XFree86 4.0.2;
> When I try playing a DVD, it works, but it is very jerky. Just
> guessing I would say I'm getting every tenth frame or so.
> 
> With this setup should I expect to be able to get smooth playback
> using the software decoding?
> 
> My DVD drive is IDE, but I'm using SCSI emulation (so I can use
> cdrecord with my CDR drive; Is there a way to use SCSI emulation
> with my CDR, but not the DVD drive (once again this is linux)?)
> and hdparm won't work on the dvd drive while SCSI emulation
> is being used. I'm going to build a kernel without SCSI emulation
> to see if tweaking with hdparm makes a difference.
> 
> Any insight or suggestions would be most appreciated.
> 
> 
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