On 5/1/05, Scott Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm just livid.  The wife is away and inspired by everyone else's WAF 
> comments and the fact that Chris Kennedy has done an awesome
> job lately of getting all the bugs worked out of the ivtv driver so there are 
> no more freezes.....Fry's is 3 miles from my house, a
> dangerous combo.
> 
> I purchased a new motherboard/cpu combo upgrading the AMD Athlon 1800+ to an 
> Intel P4 2.4GHz.  Spent about 4 hours getting it all
> working again, verifying that I had basic MythTV system working before even 
> trying the DVD.  This morning I tried the DVD and still
> the same error with mplayer  "YOUR SYSTEM IS TOO SLOW TO PLAY THIS". Errrrr.  
> I'm using a PVR-350 and of course don't have xvideo
> available, so I've got to use -vo x11 on my mplayer.  I'm trying ogle now, 
> and while it hasn't completely died like mplayer there
> are obvious frame drops.  CPU load is fairly low, .5-.66, I would have 
> expected it to be a lot more considering the cpu is having to
> do all the decoding.
> 
> Can anyone offer any recommendations?  I'm so close to having an awesome 
> mythtv system, one that even the wife approves of, the only
> thing lacking is DVD playback.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott

Have you tried using Xine?  Also, is DMA active on your DVD-ROM?
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