Dvd,dvd,dvd...

[Petr Janda]

Hi,
Xvinfo says:
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
 Adaptor #0: "NV Video Blitter"
   number of ports: 32
   port base: 65
   operations supported: PutImage
   supported visuals:
     depth 24, visualID 0x23
     depth 24, visualID 0x24
     depth 24, visualID 0x25
     depth 24, visualID 0x26
     depth 24, visualID 0x27
     depth 24, visualID 0x28
     depth 24, visualID 0x29
     depth 24, visualID 0x2a
   number of attributes: 2
     "XV_SET_DEFAULTS" (range 0 to 0)
             client settable attribute
     "XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK" (range 0 to 1)
             client settable attribute
             client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
   maximum XvImage size: 2046 x 2046
   Number of image formats: 5
     id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
       guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
       bits per pixel: 16
       number of planes: 1
       type: YUV (packed)
     id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
       guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
       bits per pixel: 12
       number of planes: 3
       type: YUV (planar)
     id: 0x59565955 (UYVY)
       guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
       bits per pixel: 16
       number of planes: 1
       type: YUV (packed)
     id: 0x30323449 (I420)
       guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
       bits per pixel: 12
       number of planes: 3
       type: YUV (planar)
     id: 0x3
       guid: 03000000-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
       bits per pixel: 32
       number of planes: 1
       type: RGB (packed)
       depth: 24
       red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
My card is nvidia 6600GT PCI-E

What in particular do you need from dmesg or xorg.log?

pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
pci2: <NVidia model 0140 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 5
Petr

Oliver Fromme wrote:
Petr Janda <elekktretterr at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > Xine looks horrible(and skins dont work) and xine menus behave very 
 > weirdly and slowly, I decided to try gxine, but it freezes on start up. 
 > watching dvds in mplayer is unwatchable (skips many many frimes). Ive 
 > never had similar problems in Linux where dvd playback was always smooth.

If video playback doesn't work, the first thing to check
is whether hardware acceleration for video playback works.
Use the "xvinfo" command and check the output.  If it says
"no adaptors present", then hardware acceleration is not
available from your graphics driver, which means that the
main processor has to do all the work of scaling, color
conversion, resampling etc., which can lead to skipping
frames.
If you need further help, it would be useful to know what
graphics adapter you have, and possibly relevant excerpts
from dmesg and Xorg.log.
Best regards
   Oliver