Kaffeine playback jerky

[Billie Walsh]

david wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
This just gets weirder and weirder. Here is my section of etc/x11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Thats all there is.

-- 
Life is what happens while your busy making other plans.