[MPlayer-users] re: DVD problems

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Daniel A. Nagy wrote:
> Gabor, 
> 
> Please, read my original post on this topic. I turned the video and audio
> output off, yet mplayer was not just a little slower than ogle, but rendered

Hmmm, sorry, I missed that in your letter ...

> the movie unenjoyable: the slowdown jittered between none and tenfold(!).
> So it's definitely not a driver problem. However, I don't claim that it is
> an mplayer problem, as it can still happen due to libdvdread and/or
> libdvdcss, although in that case we can still fix the bug by a workaround in
> mplayer; ogle uses the very same libraries, yet works fast enough (on my
> Celeron, at least). So there should be an app-level solution.

It's strange. As I've written DVD playing is quite fast on my machine even
when compared with Ogle. However it would be nice to know the roots of this
problem if someone can find it ... I can't since it works for me (TM).
;-(

- Gabor