Video Playback Choppy

[Calvin Spealman]

Stefan Gehn wrote:
> see if "xdpyinfo | grep XV" yields a line reading "XVideo", that extension
> is needed for fast video overlays (instead of copying all the pixels onto
> the screen, that takes ages). If it's not there then copying the image
> onto the screen is taking most of the cpu and that can cause choppieness
> of both video and audio.

Yes, XVideo extension is present.

> Eww, the Intel onboard devices are not the best ones to choose. I don't
> know why though, maybe their linux-drivers are not perfect yet or
> something. I sometimes have problems with my i810 sound on my laptop too
> (starts skipping on internet streams).

Not much of a choice when it comes to built-in cards in a computer given as
a gift, when all your other's were stolen.

> Well, I hoped it was just some misconfigured playback application but if
> both xine and mplayer fail then it's rather a driver issue (or maybe it's
> just a simple reason like dma mode not turn on for the harddisk) :(

Maybe I could try placing the video in a RamDisk and seeing if that helps?
or maybe I should just upgrade the video card.

> I didn't really buy it for playing DVDs either, it's mostly because of
> games. Btw, on my laptop (P4M 1.4GHz, Intel i810 Sound, ATI Radeon 7500)
> DVD and video playback also works fine. Actually everything above 1GHz
> with a video-overlay capable gfx-card should never cause any problems.

Yeah and I'm over those requirements, so I don't get it. I miss my videos!