Simon Baxter wrote: > Hi Group. > > I've just built up my Shuttle PC with built-in S3 UniChrome card. > > The video playback performance for DVB and DVD are REALLY poor. Lots of > skipping and staggered picture. > > [ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays. > That means xine will have to do color space transformation and > scaling > in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your > X server will help here. > If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on > http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ > press <enter> to continue... > > [ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support... > XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This > extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space > conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost. > If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all > kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles, > though... > press <enter> to continue... The above messages say it all. To get proper performance you need an X server that supports your card. I had a similar card a couple of years ago, and think I remember finding some unsupported builds of X with limited driver support. But if you have a slot available and $30 you might want to get yourself a low-end nvidia card (which has the necessary hardware accelerated X drivers with xv support). Marius K.
