A very big BRAVO !

[ML]

Hi guys,

first I'd like to say a very big and loud BRAVO !
I know that the use of libdvdcss is barely legal but your work is really 
great.

I switched definitely from Windows to Linux a few days ago on my handbook (I 
have been making test for 2 years and each time I used to come back to 
Windows 98 [default installation of my handbook] for working : not enough 
mature tools under Linux).

Under windows, I had the worst business with the DVDPlayer installed on this 
machine.
Despite the underlying layers (Direct W 6. or 7.x) this player never worked 
the way it should do : reboot needed, starting with another DVD to get the 
right DVD run, no sound, slow pictures, etc.
The monolithic Creative DVD player I have on another machine was used to work
far better.


The first time I used Videolan on my converted-handbook everything was 
great !
I tried and tried again the DVD that were a problem under Windows on this 
machine and every one was played correctly.

Sincerely a very, very good work. 
A another proof that if someone wants to make a good product he can.



In the future I planned to use vls in order to distribute video and sound all 
around the apartment but I'm waiting for a new machine as I suppose we must 
have CPU power to compress. See the 3rd question.


I have 3 questions and one remark.

First, the remark :
	Why the picture looks like mosaic when full screen or rapid movings ? Is it 
	a matter of power (resolution is dynamicly adapted to the CPU power) ?
	My CPU is PII 300Mhz so far to slow for a full screen but it doesn't matter
	I can observe this behaviour even in a small screen.



Second,	what kind of CPU is needed in order to have a correct rendering under 
	a full screen (1280x1024) with vlc ?
	What kind of CPU do one need in order for vls to run (MPREG1 and MPEG2 					
	compression) with respect to the resolution ?

Third,
	Do you plan to make a system in videolan able to select between pan,
	letter-box or 4/3 formats when they exist ?

Fourth, a little problem.
	the **next** selection in the popup menu as well as the **next** selection 
	in the menu doesn't work for me : vlc shuts down without warnings, not even 
	a segfault.

	Whereas the **next** button in the (the one below) chapter selection works 
	most of the time except from while to while when it hangs vlc for a obscure 
	"out of memory" reason.
	See the exact message below which is followed by a Ctrl+C.


...
input: playing at normal rate
Empty io_vec FIFO in netlist. Unable to allocate memory
Out of memory

intf error: signal 2 received, exiting



My config :
	Kernel is Linux 2.4.12
	Libc is 2.2.3
	gtk-config reports 1.2.10
	glib-config reports 1.2.10
	gnome-config reports 1.2.13
	gdk-pixbuf-config reports 0.10.1	
	xml2-config reports 2.4.6
	Qt (not used) reports 2.3.1

Thanks again,

db