choppy dvd performance

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Are you running Ximoain gnome? 

VLC does not compile gtk or gnome with Ximian gnome libraries. Don't
even think to install older gtk or gnome libraries, because they are
incompatible with Ximian. It is sad but try at the moment. 

If so then revert back to RedHat's Gnome, then it will compile.

Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman.

"Matthew P. Soccio" wrote:
> 
> I downloaded the source, but could not compile with gtk because make
> exited with a:
> 
> gcc -fPIC -o ../gtk.so gtk.o intf_gtk.o gtk_interface.o gtk_support.o
> gtk_display.o gtk_open.o gtk_control.o gtk_menu.o gtk_playlist.o
> gtk_modules.o gtk_preferences.o gtk_callbacks.o -shared -L/usr/lib
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk  -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm
> /usr/lib/libglib.a(gutils.o): In function `g_atexit':
> gutils.o(.text+0x90): multiple definition of `g_atexit'
> intf_gtk.o(.text+0x704): first defined here
> /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `g_atexit' changed from 55 to 80 in
> gutils.o
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [../gtk.so] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/src/vlc-0.2.91/plugins/gtk'
> make: *** [plugins/gtk.so] Error 2
> 
> Tried a the latest gtk+ & devel packages and still no luck.  Even when I
> disabled gtk on the configure, vcl crashed immediately anyway.
> 
> I got the rpms and now I can play a dvd and hear sound as long as I do
> it from the command line.  When using the gui, it Seg Faults right after
> I click ok to choose the dvd.  I don't really care about this, but if
> you want any output, I'll jack up the -vvvv and send you some.
> 
> When the screen comes up, I get choppy playback.  I have tried the esd
> plugin, both the ones that came with the rpm and the one that I
> compiled, tried different video settings and to no avail.  When I do a
> --novideo, the sound is still choppy.
> 
> mplayer -vvvv yeilds:
> 
> dvd warning: DTS audio not handled yet(0x89bd)
> 
> and tons of:
> 
> vout warning: late picture skipped (0x8197590)
> 
> If you want all of the output from this, I will gladly send it along.
> 
> I have a cd burner on the same IDE chain with my DVD player, both are
> being picked up as SCSI devices so that the burner will work.  I do not
> know if the scsi emulation would cause problems, but I will try
> recompiling my kernel some other night.
> 
> Below is the skinny on my system.  So far, of the media players with css
> capabilities, yours is working the best, so I hope that someone can help
> me fine tune this or slap me along side my head with an obvious oversight.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Red Hat 7.1
> 
> Linux caddis 2.4.13 #1 Wed Nov 21 20:20:56 EST 2001 i686 AuthenticAMD
> 
> XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510)
> 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 4
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
> stepping        : 2
> cpu MHz         : 997.184
> cache size      : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
> bogomips        : 1985.74
> 
> SBLive! card with emu10k driver compiled into kernel
> 
> ATI Expert 2000 Rage 128 AGP with kernel AGP and SBLive support, r128
> driver from gatos