Re: Ogle performance

I'd have to say it's several per minute, really many.  There are very few
times when I look at the playback and could use the term "smooth".  It
rarely interrupts the audio, but it still is an issue for home theater
purposes.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bj|rn Englund" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Ogle-user] Ogle performance


> Fri Mar 12 2004, tate austin wrote:
> > I just installed Ogle and have been using it for DVDs.  It's pretty
good, I
> > like the sound.  Given the limitations of X it's rather remarkable.  My
> > only complaint is that I have a 2.8 gigahertz CPU, a Gig of RAM and the
DVD
> > playback has occassional visual skips in it.  The audio is fine but at
that
> > clock speed it seems that the video should be smooth.
> >
> There could be many reasons for visual skips if it just happens
> sometimes. You could have some high priority program starting/running
> or some other program that happens to run some cpu/disk intensive job.
> Make sure that DMA is on for the dvd and also that
> unmaskirq is on for your drives.
> Some programs like netscape and acroread are known to cause problems even
> when they seemingly are doing nothing.
> It could also be some cronjob that is starting up.
> You could also try to raise the priority of the ogle_vout process.
>
> How occasional are the skips? several per minute or a few per hour or?
>
> /Bj|rn
>