Re: ogle newbie, 2 questions, artsdsp and 'choppy' (more static) output

Wed Jan 21 2004, Alef T Veld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the faq it says use artsdsp in kde to reroute audio, but i'm using 
> suse9.0 with kde and the shellscript says that only binaries are
> supported ;-).
> 
> so..for the time being i just killed artsd and ran ogle, which worked
> nicely, but..i get well, not _choppy_ output, (the framerate is good) but
> more like a _static_ output. I see the picture moving nicely, but there is
> just to much static going on. It's like a unclear picture. Well it's 
> viewable but altogether no dvd quality at all, not even tv ;-)
> 
> I can post a screenshot on request.
> 
Yes, if you can manage to capture the static in a picture.
> 
> Is this performance related or is there something else going on?
> I would appreciate any help. I can send any output from my system
> upon request.

If the static is horizontal lines flickering in the picture it could
be that the memory bandwidth on the gfxcard is used to its limit.
You can try running in a lower screen resolution or lower refresh rate
to see if this is the problem.

/Björn