[MPlayer-users] Hardware Acceleration for DVD playback

[EFlyers]

No vesa or directfb drivers.

I would assume these would be better than what you have mentioned. I'd see if 
you could get them..

You may try changing your hdparms on your dvd player if it has DMA 
capabilitys? 

 sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd


The audio may seem to be running fine..but maybe taking up a good chunk of 
your processor feed..... I tryed to play vob files on my old p3 600 and 
mplayer would by default downmix the 5.1 to 2 channels, where by the audio 
sounded good, but the video took the beating, because of it..

Your computer is too slow to do ANY down mixing.

You might want to try -channels 6 to prevent the CPU trying to downmixing.

In all seriousness, why not buy, borrow, or  beg  for a faster CPU... unless 
you just want to amaze your friends. 333Mhz is the bare minimum you could 
even attempt to run DVD's decently. 

Cheers, 

Gary



 Matt wrote:
> I have an ATi Rage Pro 3D 8MB graphics card that claims to have MPEG-2
> decoding on it somewhere, I was wondering if it's possible to get this
> working properly because at the moment I have about 0.5 FPS in DVD
> playback, even with all the optimisations under the sun running. The
> machine is an AMD K6-II 333Mhz with 128MB RAM. I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1.
> The sound is running smoothly enough, it's just the video that's the
> problem. Video also runs smoothly playing back .avi movies. The current
> -vo devices I have are:
>
> Available video output drivers:
>          svga    SVGAlib
>          png     PNG file
>          null    Null video output
>          pgm     PGM file
>          md5     MD5 sum
>          mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
>          yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
>          cvidix  console VIDIX
>          tga     Targa output
>
> I don't have X installed and would like to avoid having it if possible
> because I am concerned about wasting valuable processor time running that
> as opposed to decoding DVDs.
>
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