On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 00:55 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > I use my 600Mhz Via C3 to play all kinds of DivX content with > > mplayer. As long as I run it at nice -20 and use the OSS driver > > (mplayer's ALSA driver sucks) it works perfectly. I can even > > download, compile, etc. in the background without dropping frames. > > > > Totem/Xine is way too slow though. > > Have you tried VLC?
Nope. mplayer works well enough that I don't see a need. Maybe I'll try it. There's a lot about the gmplayer GUI that pisses me off, but it plays movies so well I just deal with it. For example if you launch gmplayer from a terminal and exit with Ctrl-C, it hoses the terminal (typed characters are no longer echoed) and you have to do "stty sane" to fix it. And there are some settings in the GUI with bizarre behavior - like the "Panscan" setting is remembered but does not take effect until you mouse over it. Also if it's running at nice -20, exiting with Ctrl-C will cause it to spin in a loop hanging the machine for 10-15 seconds. But I'm used to these by now. Lee _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
