[ltp] any experience with xine?

[Matt Graham]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 16:11, after a long battle with technology, 
Edith Gruber wrote:
> I would like to know if the mediaplayer xine works well on a T21 PIII 
> 800Mhz, 128 MB RAM with 8xDVD.

I'd buy more RAM if I were you.  SODIMMs have never been cheaper, and 
getting 384M would make *everything* faster.

> Is the processor fast enough and is the RAM sufficent for it?

It should be OK as long as you make sure you've got the XV extension 
available so that xine can use XV to display video instead of the 
slower XShm.  "xdpyinfo | grep XV" should return the line "XVideo".  If 
it doesn't, post the output of "lspci | tail -1" so we can find out 
which video card you have.  If you have an ATi video chip, you might 
have to go to http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ and grab their X modules 
instead of using the ones that came with your distro.  HTH,

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