On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:05, Len Lawrence wrote: > Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on > my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi > really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which > may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in > the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic > video driver rather than Nvidia's own. It happens with all three > programs whereas xine and ogle have always run very smoothly on my old > 500 MHz Pentium III with the Voodoo 3 2000 card and Mandrake 8.1. > > Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for > anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, > a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that > stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a > problem. > > Len Lawrence
I'd be inclined to check on the tuning of your drives - file system optimisation has heaps to do with multimedia reads and writes - so in optimising your hard drives and CDROM's, you'll eliminate the obvious. -- Tue Jan 14 20:50:01 EST 2003 8:50pm up 12:31, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.16 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Brace yourselves. We're about to try something that borders on the unique: an actually rather serious technical book which is not only (gasp) vehemently anti-Solemn, but also (shudder) takes sides. I tend to think of it as `Constructive Snottiness.' -- Mike Padlipsky, "Elements of Networking Style"
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