[ale] DVD player

[Alex Carver]

I'll probably try it this weekend.  However, I did get mplayer to
partially play the DVD (it stops early, not sure why) but the video is
very smooth from mplayer so something is working.

On 9/23/2013 20:53, Boris Borisov wrote:
> I had to drop my depth to 16 because Opengl needed memory for textures. S3
> savage 3D. Puppy Linux got version named Wary which purposely is compiled
> with old xorg server to support older hardware. Try it.
> 
> On Monday, September 23, 2013, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>> Also, according to the Xorg log, the trident, vesa and fbdev drivers all
>> loaded.  The trident driver lists cyberbladeXPAi1 and cyberbladeXP4 as
>> supported chipsets.  It does show also the dbdevhw, vgahw, and vbe.
>>
>> Eventually most of the messages are from Trident which shows 16MB video
>> RAM (odd because the system claims it has 64) and it's at a 24 bit depth
>> (I should probably change that to 16).
>>
>> On 9/23/2013 18:23, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> According to dmesg it's an ALi M1644 chipset using agpgart-ali.  Online
>>> documents say it's a Trident CyberBlade XP Shared video memory (UMA)
>>>
>>> On 9/23/2013 16:30, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>>>> It probably works under windows because the driver supports hardware
>>>> assisted decoding and presentation offloading the cpu.  In Linux,
>>>> everything is likely done by the CPU.  What video driver are you using
>>>> for the video card?  Also what video card is in the laptop?
>>>>
>>>> On 9/23/2013 6:57 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> So toss on a more "feature complete" distro and do a test run. It may
>>>>> be the skinny one is compiled for using various hardware emulation for
>>>>> video. Or the graphics card driver is just feeble.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 23, 2013 6:42 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
>>>>> <mailto:agcarver%2Bale at acarver.net>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Strangely it worked fine under XP Home (the previous OS obviously
>>>>> ;)).
>>>>>     In fact I watched a DVD on the machine before I wiped it.  There
>>>>>     were a
>>>>>     couple hiccups because a Windows update was trying to happen in the
>>>>>     background but once I shut that down it was fine through the movie
>>>>>     with
>>>>>     one blip at the layer switch.
>>>>>
>>>>>     On 9/23/2013 15:32, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>>>     > +1. Underpowered hardware sounds likely.
>>>>>     > On Sep 23, 2013 12:09 PM, "Calvin Harrigan"
>>>>>     <calvin.harrigan at gmail.com <mailto:calvin.harrigan at gmail.com>>
>>>>>     > wrote:
>>>>>     >
>>>>>     >> On 9/23/2013 11:54 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>>>     >>
>>>>>     >>> Mplayer didn't work on mine.  It kept crashing out of the DVD
>>>>>     playback
>>>>>     >>> almost as soon as it started.  The main problem during
>>>>>     playback is short
>>>>>     >>> pausing/jerks in the video which I'm attributing to slow
>>>>>     throughput from
>>>>>     >>> the DVD drive itself.  Even reniced to -10 xine was having
>>>>>     issues.  I'll
>>>>>     >>> have to try VLC again, too.
>>>>>     >>>
>>>>>     >>> On 9/23/2013 08:51, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>>>     >>>
>>>>>     >>>> I'm using mplayer on the PC's slow CPU and not much memory.
> Old
>>>>>     >>>> Toshiba 700 Mhz 192 MB RAM.
>>>>>
>>>>>     >>>
>>>>>     >> That also sounds like not enough CPU horse power.  A P3 at 1
>>>>>     GHz may not
>>>>>     >> cut it without hardware assistance. As far as I know any dvd
>>>>>     drive can read
>>>>>     >> data fast enough to allow for video playback.
>>>>>
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