I just buildt a Myth system for a friend..

amd 800 duron
g4 mx 440
512 ram
200 gig drive
PVR250

dvd playback.. is ok...jerk jerk....ok...jerk jerk.. i ran top while using it and it was using ~68% cpu usage..high but not pegging. I tryed several things and gave up for the night. I then relized that i have never actually sat and watched a DVD on mine.. so i went home and tried my computer.

amd 3000+
g4 mx 440
1 gig ddr 400
200 gig 7200 rpm
Pvr 250

much better but still not really smooth like a real dvd player would be. Dont get me wrong to really see it on my system you have to pay closer attention then the Top system. The top system i had to compile Mplayer so it would play anything at all.. my bottom system uses the stock mplayer install for knoppmyth. any ideas?? is there a hadware accel we can use?? or is it turned on by default.. maybe swith to xine.. but after r4v4 it seems to break stuff when i force-overwrite install..

I saw stuttering DVD playback until I enabled DMA for the DVD drive.

http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/inde ... HardDrives

Beyond that, it's tough from the description to know whether it's a lack of deinterlacing, a lack of 2-3 pulldown, or other playback problems.

I've got xine running with R4V4.1, btw. Didn't realize it was a problem! The tvtime deinterlacing and post-processing is very interesting.,,

quick question.. /dev/hda is my HD what is the name for the Dvd drive??

It depends...
hda primary master
hdb primary slave
hdc secondary master
hdd secondary slave

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ohh ok.. thats a good thing to know! thanks!

On my fast system i enabled dma addressing and it didnt seem to help.. although my system wasnt really that bad.. i will try it on the slower system and ill find out. I cant seem to get xine going.. i first



off cource it says:



so i read here:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1487&highlight=forceoverwrite

and tried:

it says:

i also tried various versions of the above command trying to get something to work.. did i mess up the syntax?

try


note the -i for install.

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thanks X Xine is back up and running.. also for those following this thread...

read this thread from the past to get the remote to work in xine..

ttp://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=337

xine is SOOOOOO much better then mplayer for dvd's.. however i do prefer mplayer for xvid type movies. I have Menu's!!