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

[Scott A. Herod]

The Sigma Designs 84xx and up series cards have reasonably good linux
support.

luke p wrote:
> 
> 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