Kaffeine playback jerky

[david]

On Monday 01 September 2008 1:54:27 pm Billie Walsh wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
> >> I've been following the thread about Kaffeine Borked with interest. I
> >> had been unable to get DVD,s to play also. Some error message about
> >> dvdcss not being installed but it was. Anyway, I checked and sure enough
> >> changing the source to scd0 fixed that part. Now they play, but there's
> >> a new problem.
> >>
> >> Playback is VERY jerky on both home recorded media and commercial
> >> media.. The computer is a 3.5GHz, with two gigs of memory so there
> >> shouldn't be an issue there. What I notice is that both the hard drive
> >> light and dvd drive lights are on constantly during playback.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Life is what happens while your busy making other plans.
> >
> > Start by telling what graphics card you have and if it is set up for
> > openGL and if your player is set to use it. I an not sure what the
> > best driver selections are for the players but I know on my system
> > there are a lot of choices.
>
> Probably should also say it Kubuntu 8.04/KDE 3.5.9
>
> It's an ATI Radeon video card using the ATI drivers. Near as I can
> figure it out Kaffeine is set to use the default driver/card under
> xengine parameters. It's the built in video "card" on the mother board.
>
> Is there a CLI command that will give me the exact card?
>
> It seems that I used to use the fglrx drivers on this computer, but
> can't guarantee that. That is an option in System settings. The other
> options listed are fbdev, 8500, and vesa

Here Billie, Add Option "VideoOverlay" "on"  to your xorg.conf file. Here is 
an example of mine:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "VideoOverlay"  "on"
        Driver          "fglrx"

Then restart your X server or reboot your computer. You shouldn't have any 
choppy video now.

-- 
David M.