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I got Xine working (sort of) at about 4am; Ogle wouldn't play my Dilbert
or Trek IV disks!

However, Xine cannot run fast enough for normal video or sound.


The xine_check made some suggestions for performance improvement, such as
adding Kernel MTRR support, X YV12 Overlay support, customizing X for
my hardware (IBM Thinkpad R31), etc.  The R31 seems to have fast display
hardware and has a 1.2 GHz Celeron.


Will these improvements likely get sufficient speed for normal play?

Recommendations?

Do I need to switch from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel (which I don't want to
bother with)?

Can someone advise on how I can customize X for the R31 hardware?

Thanks very much,
Bob Toxen,
Server geek who is week on multimedia stuff

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:00:16AM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> (Different Jim here...)

> I have a DVD drive in both of my Thinkpad T20's. I can play DVD movies
> using Ogle, Xine and mplayer. In fact, it makes long car trips with the
> kids quite tolerable :) Be sure to install libdvdcss to decode the
> (feeble and annoying) encryption in commercial DVD movies.

> I don't have burner capability on either laptop but I do on other
> systems. I have had consistent success using k3b to create DVD data
> archives as well as bootable DVD disks. It is quite possible to create
> the same CD/DVD's using mkisofs and cdrecord as they are the underlying
> tools of k3b (and gcombust and xcdroast), but burning the occasional
> disk as opposed to burning repetitive, custom ones from a script works
> well with k3b.


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