Kaffeine playback jerky

[Joel Oliver]

Knapp wrote:
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Would this work with Nvidia too? What does it do?
>
>   
No, for NVIDIA cards you use something similar to:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nVidia Corporation C51PV [GeForce 6150]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    BusID          "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection

But, using either fglrx or nvidia requires installing the restricted 
drivers, and nvidia-glx-new for anything newer than a GeForce 4,  
nvidia-glx for Geforce 3-Geforce 4 cards and nvidia-glx-legacy for old 
TNT and Riva cards to Geforce 2 cards.

The BusID above may not be the same on your system.  Use lspci in a 
terminal to find your BusID.... Or don't fill it in at all, as the newer 
Xorg is pretty smart about guessing... Which is why there is no driver 
listed and it still works.... Probably picking vesa or ati which won't 
allow hardware acceleration which explains the slowdown...

Back to the OP:

Check  your /var/log/Xorg.0.log    It will give you much info as to what 
driver it did pick...  The bad news will be aparent running glxinfo | 
grep direct

Actually there's 5 drivers that you can use for your card, but only 
fglrx will deliver the 3d accell you need.  The others that will work in 
my order of preference from best to worst is radeon, ati, vesa, and 
fbdev, but all of these are going to be slow as molasses.

Just load up synaptic/adept and search ati and fglrx and install the 
restricted package and it should work after sticking driver "fglrx" in 
there...


Hope this helps the jitters...