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

[luke p]

I'm just guessing here but I think you'd need a dvd-decoder card so the 
processing is not on your CPU. the only problem is I believe most dvd 
decoder cards only work with windows, but another guess.
either that or most likly a new CPU (800 Mhz should be plenty).

hope that helps

luke


>From: Ben Luey <lueyb at gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: [lug] DVD too slow... do I need a major upgrade?
>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:16:36 -0500 (CDT)
>
>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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