On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 05:15, Robert Tilley wrote: > ... > Do I need to ditch KDE and use a lightweight wm for for multimedia? I > would use noatun (KDE Multimedia Player) but that program doesn't allow > easy display-window size-changing. > > Any information as to what I may be doing wrong is most welcome.
I find xine quite good for mpeg playback and it seems "nearly as smooth" as M$ WMA in full screen mode. The only problem I have with it is xine does not auto-repeat so the first and last dozen frames or so are lost. Whether you have a video card supporting hardware acceleration or not would make the most difference. I expect most windows drivers are tuned better, ie; it's not really KDE's fault and just getting more ram back will not make the biggest difference. --markc