Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
Sorry --meant to send my replies to the list.Thanks, that was very helpful. I can get xine to work setting audio
output to esd (like xmms) after installing special xine-esd rpm. Mplayer
(gmplayer is how I invoke it) still not working for some reason.
Though xine works the result is not good. It's very slow. The hardware
may be to blame. P166 32MB ram, old ati 3d rage II (pci) using the ati
X.org version 4 driver. The network is 100mbps with an intel eepro100 at
the server, and a tulip based, diskless workstations modded linksys fast
ethernet card at the client.
Would better client cpu+vid card improve what i see, or is it likely to
be network bound?
It is probably not the network. Try to play videos in small resolution to see if that helps, if it does then it might probably be the video card (but then again, that might indicate the network... if playing one fullscreen video on one client is bad, but one small video on many thin clients is ok, then it is the video vard). Also try to run xnetload to see how much the network is loaded too...
If the sound is slow then it might be a problem with esd (which is widely recognized to, to paraphrase most discussions, "suck"). For the ultimate LTSP sound experience you should use MuNAS from www.advancedthintech.com, it is a commercial product but free for up to two users... at least you can see if it helps if you have sound skipping etc.
// Dag Sverre
Fullscreen is terrible -- less that 1 fps. playing an approximately 700x400 avi ripped from dvd.
Sound is actually good it's the picture that seems to be really slow.
I will rig a faster desktop (k6-2+ 550mhz) with my etherbooting network card, with an nvidia agp card and see how xine does on that. Unfortunately I can't test the many clients idea.
Thanks for the advice.
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