[lug] DVD too slow... do I need a major upgrade?

[Jeff Howell]

I think 99% of the problem is your CPU.

K6's are REALLY bad at doing any multimedia. MTRR support is essential for
playing DVDs. A dedicated DVD decoder may help a bit, but it'll be cheaper
and far more effective to get a decent processor. The K6 line from AMD is
an ugly stepchild I'm sure AMD would like to forget they made those.

Jeff
 Be kind to your system administrators...
 For they are a cranky lot and control the root password.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Ben Luey wrote:

> I just got xine (0.9.13)  working with my new 6x dvd drive (hitachi-2500)
> and it works, but it is painfully slow and I'd guess no more than 10fps
> (any way to check?). My hardware is a k6-300, 128meg ram, Diamond viper
> 330 (nvideo Riva128) and a ASUS-P5A motherboard. Kernel 2.4.8. Xfree 4.1.0
> (mandrake 8.1)
>
> When I run xine-check -- I've got three speed problems:
>
> * no MTRR my k6-2 is earlier than revision 8 and doesn't support MTRR.
>
> * No YUV overlays -- my card uses the nv drive and doesn't support it
>
> * no Xvideo support -- again my graphics card.
>
> My question is - how much of an upgrade do I need to order to enjoy
> watching dvd's? (24fps at 1024x768 full screen)? Is it worth just getting
> a new graphics cards that supports at least XVideo or will that not be
> enough and do I need to get a new motherbaord/cpu (ie major upgrade). I
> hate to ask this, but if I installed windows on dual boot, would it do a
> better job with dvds?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
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