[ale] DVD player

[Alex Carver]

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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