Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > C.Y.M wrote: > >> When I attempt to play DVD's under xine-0.7.8 using the DVD plugin >> (from CVS), I >> get alot of skipping to the point that it is not watchable. Does >> anyone have >> the DVD plugin for VDR working with the Xine plugin? I have tried the >> XVMC >> driver and that fails immediately. When I use the "XV" display driver, >> it works >> a little, but thats when I get the really bad skips in video. My >> video card is >> a Nvidia GeForce MX 420 and I am using the current 8178 proprietary >> video drivers. > > Hhm, I do not see such an issue. I use a GeForce 6600GT with NVidia > driver version 8174, using xine's output driver xv. My system is > equipped with a P4 2.8 GHz HT CPU. I run debug builds of VDR and xine, > so my load my be a bit higher than with regular builds. > > With the deinterlacer enabled (as specified in MANUAL), I have a CPU > load of about 15-20 %. Although the CPU load is not too high, xine still > gives me a lot of these messages > > video_out: Verwerfe Bild mit pts 246538, weil es zu alt ist > (Unterschied: 1982). > > When I disable the deinterlacer, CPU load drops to 7-10% and the above > messages no longer appear. > > I must admit, I never had those messages in the past although I had a > much higher CPU load. But recently I replaced my P-ATA drive by a S-ATA > one to get the P-ATA drive repaired. > > And it looks like I have this issue (and lost TS packets, too) since the > time when I replaced the drive (I didn't have any S-ATA drive before in > this system). > > I use an ext3 file system with a commit interval of 5 seconds. gkrellm > shows me a disc access every 5 seconds, but I still haven't checked > whether there is anything to commit. So I still hope that things improve > when I get my drive back. > > BTW: SUSE 10, kernel-smp-2.6.13-15.8 When I upgraded to the latest version of xine, the buffer was still set to 8. Reducing the buffer to 4 and having a hysteresis of 4 solved all the buffer problems for me and the DVD plugin. :) Thanks for everything. Best Regards,
