Hi Rich,<br><br>I use xine for DVDs with the following options : <br>xine --no-splash -V xxmc --autoscan dvd -pfhq<br><br>--no-splash : you guessed it<br>-V xxmc : uses the XvMC extended video ouput driver<br>--autoscan will scan the DVD at startup<br>-pfhq means start playing at full screen, GUI hidden and quit at end of playing<br><br>I like xine for DVD playback. The 'a' key switches display formats (auto, square, 16:9, etc) very easily (faster than mythtv), the 'z' key zooms in the display (convenient when watching liveTV recordings to eliminate some jitter on the bottom edge of the picture ('Z' zooms out).<br><br>Most of all, I never experience DVD playback hickups with xine. And all on-the-fly display format changes are smooth, no playback hickup either. Furthermore, with a right button click on the display, you get a menu where you can switch subtitles (language, on/off, etc), apply some video postprocessing on the fly, and whatnot. <br><br>CPU usage is
small as well :)<br><br>But of course, if you have stored DVD content on some NFS shares, then you will have to start xine slightly differently ... try 'man xine' ;)<br> <br>J.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><b><i>Rich West <Rich.West@wesmo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> With my current install of MythTV, we pull all of our DVD's off of a<br>central NFS server as ISO images and play them via MythVideo's internal<br>player.<br><br>There's some nice features of MythVideo's internal player, such as the<br>ability to be "stretched" to fill the screen and its nice integration in<br>to the rest of MythTV.<br><br>However, since it has been installed (November '06), I've always noticed<br>that there is periodic hesitation and hiccups in the playback. There<br>are a number of complaints like this in the archive as well, and a<br>number of responses suggested using mplayer
(since it seems to<br>pre-buffer content) instead of the internal player.<br><br>Is this indeed the case? 98% of the DVD's we have on the home server<br>are just the movie itself (no menus or extras), so we really just need<br>the ability to pause, play, fast forward, reverse, skip forward/back<br>chapters, and fill the screen. I'm just looking to smooth out the<br>playback, really..<br><br>The article at ExtremeTech<br>(http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2055340,00.asp) got me<br>thinking about using mplayer over the internal player.. :)<br><br>-Richwe<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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