Did you ever have choppy DVD playback problems? I too am running Ubuntu, and have installed xine. The playback seems to micropause every few sconds, and the sound synchronisation can be a bit off after a while too. It's not unwatchable, but not as smooth as in windows.
I haven't had a really good go at fixing it, but did notice that the DVD drive is using udma. Probably a caching thing somewhere. Cheers, Carl. On 06/10/05, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having failed to get either mplayer or the default Totem install to play > DVDs on my (Ubuntu) machine, I took Rik's advice last night and gave > Totem-xine a go. Success - it leapt into life! This morning I rattled > through every DVD I own, and it cheerfully played the lot, including > LOTR extended versions. > > I've installed libdvddecss (spollink?) and win32codecs. > > Totem now also cheerfully plays .avi, .wmv, .asf, .mov, and .mpg - in > fact, every video file I could find in a quick hunt through my hard-drive. > > Using "top", I observed that mplayer was maxing out the CPU: >90% usage. > I assume that mplayer was taking everything the kernel would give it, > and still falling short. Pretty bad - it's an 1150MHz P3. > > By contrast, Totem-xine ticks along at a relaxed 30-33% CPU load. > > Microshaft's grip on my hard-drive is starting to look tenuous. > Happy, happy. > Douglas. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= > >
