Multimedia Hell :-/

[david]

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 22:59 -0600, Luis Murillo wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 17:32 +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:
>>This Marillat repo worked for me:
>> #deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
>>
>>I disabled it after getting what I wanted.
>>I'm currently using Totem-xine & mozplugger, I followed the directions
>>in the unofficial starter guide. There was instructions there for
>>mplayer as well but a Pent 4 was recommended.
>>
>>Anyway Totem-xine with the w32codecs seems to handle most Windows-media,
>>Quicktime and Real media streams.
>
>I have to add that Xine is not working as it use to :s
>I can't seem to be able to play anything at normal speed, it always
>gives me the error of too much frames are being dropped so I can't watch
>any video. I can't seem to be able to use the xv so I'm using the xshm
>and it don't work well. The thing is that if I use Knoppix it works well
>with xv and I have no problems. What can I do??
>I have a Trident Cyberblade 2D/3D video card with 8MB of memory is not
>much but it use to be able to play videos in Xine. MPlayer simply uses
>all of my system's resources and only way out is a soft-reset :s
>
>-- 
>Luis Murillo <lmurillo at gmx.net>

I was using Xine yesterday (on Hoary) and was wondering why the dvd
playback was SO choppy. Then I discovered that DMA was switched OFF on
both cd-roms. (Easy to switch on - but why switched off by default?)

David