On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 08:46:48PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Mar 10 2002, user list wrote: > > Thanks for responding to my question. > (...) > > I have upgraded my box to woody (testing) and I've installed mplayer. > > That's good. Did you also use xine for watching the movies? > I'd recommend that you install xine-dvdnav as it will provide > you dvd menus. > > Try also to get libdvdcss1 from Videolan's site > <http://www.videolan.org>, since Debian cannot distribute it. > It will help you if you have CSS encrypted DVDs. > > > I don't remember a liblame0. > > Indeed, that's because liblame0 is not a part of Debian. You > would have to get the sources from the lame project > <http://lame.sf.net/>. > > Unfortunately, the current stable version of lame (3.91) > doesn't have a nice division of packages and lacks liblame0. > After the 3.91 release, I joined the project as the Debian > packaging developer and I already included (what I feel is) a > nicer division of the package, including liblame0 and > liblame0-dev (needed for compiling mplayer/mencoder with MP3 > support). > > But the lack of it isn't going to cause your computer to be > slow. It will only mean that won't be able to create AVI files > with MP3-encoded tracks, as far as I know. > > > I ask because the movies are pretty slow. Here are the specs. of my > > box > > > > 600 MHz Athlon > > 756 M CRAM > > Matrox Millennium G200 (16 MB) > > 12x DVD-CD rom drive > > > > 30GB Hard disk > > No, it shouldn't be slow. In fact, it should be faster than my > computer, I think. Mine is a 600MHz Duron, with 128MB of RAM > and a Matrox G400 (16MB also). > > > Two general questions: > > > > 1. If this is a fast enough box, what are the switches that I need > > to improve speed. I can't (or don't know how to) access DGA. Is > > this important? > > Well, first of all, install xine on your machine. It is easier > to see if everything is working correctly with xine than with > mplayer. After you make it work with xine, then use mplayer if > you want to. > > Some general guidelines: > > 1 - are you running XFree86 4 with XV support? This is > probably the most critical part of the system. X 4 is > much, much faster than X 3. See if XV is enabled (in X4) > with xdpyinfo and xvinfo. > > 2 - are your drives working with DMA enabled? > > 3 - what are the results of xine-check? They will almost > always tell you what are potential bottleneck points in > your system. To avoid it complaining, install libxine-dev. > > > 2. If the box is not fast enough what is (are) the critical piece(s) > > to upgrade? > > There shouldn't be any need to upgrade your machine, I think. > > > Thanks again for the response. > > > Hope this helps, Roger... > You were right. I'm guessing that the crux was DMA, but I also installed the most recent css library.
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