NVidia woes and DVD software

[Brian Densmore]

ogle seems to be the preference among the die-hards. I'm trying to get
mplayer to work on mine. It doesn't seem to like my video. Guess it's
time to read the documentation. :(
Still trying to get my Copy of LOTR-FOTR to play. :((

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:charles at steinkuehler.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 3:08 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: NVidia woes and DVD software
> 
> 
> My lackluster 2D performance seems to be the result of a combination 
> things, but ultimately the falut of the latest NVidia drivers, which 
> apparently have appaling 2D perfromance under specific conditions.
> 
> Gnome/Gtk seems to especially "tickle" the 2D performance 
> problems, and 
> running a glx program (in Gnome) seems to increase the 2D speed. 
> Switching to KDE also seems to help a lot (seems faster than 
> Gnome even 
> after the glx-fix), so I'm going to stick with KDE for now, and hope 
> NVidia comes out with a driver update soon.
> 
> Saddly, I can't try the older drivers, as they do not include support 
> for the NForce2 chipset used on my A7N8X (one of the risks I 
> took when 
> buying a motherboard with a new chipset architecture).
> 
> Anyway, I'm now wondering if I can try out my DVD Player (this is the 
> first computer I've had a DVD drive hooked to).  I have my very first 
> DVD: "Joe Vs. the Volcano", but RedHat doesn't seem to 
> install any form 
> of DVD software...probably for the same reason RH8 doesn't 
> come with an 
> MP3 player. :<
> 
> Any suggestions for what I should be using to watch DVD's on my 19" 
> flat-screen via my RH box?  There seem to be several choices (xine, 
> livid, and ogle at least)...are any better or worse than the others?
> 
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler
> charles at steinkuehler.net
> 
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