[Preston] DVD playing

[Richard Wellstead]

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 00:08 am, Andrew King wrote:
...
> Does anyone here have a clue what all the different things are in
> XFree86 that make it go faster, how to enable them, and which
> actually make a difference?  Here's what I managed to figure out last
> time I had a crack at this last year:
>
> - Have lots of memory (am ok with this, and am guessing that 256MB
> should be enough just for dvd playback).  Done this.
> - Use the correct XFree86 driver, rather than just VESA?
> - Enable MTRR (compile into kernel, then check with cat /proc/mtrr).
> - Enable DMA with hdparm.  Done this.
> - Enable XVideo (this is one of the unknown ones - I can't find any
> docs, manpage, or anything about it, and haven't exactly found the
> time to go looking for source code yet)

 XVIdeo just means the xv extentions - which are available when your 
graphics driver has 2D acceleration... this may not be the case with a 
crappy graphics card... :)


 Richard Wellstead