PsychoSync Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Hi I know this problem has been discussed several times before, i'm not necessarily asking for a way to rectify the problem (sure would be nice though...) but i want to know for sure what is the source. Slow DVD playback it is. Apple's DVD player uses about 80% of the cpu. Now correct me if i'm wrong but i think Apple doesn't use Hardware acceleration to plaback DVDs so its using the cpu only. I have QE&CI enabled and working fine with AGPGart and Callisto and my CPU is SSE2. Am I right if i say that its kernel related, some SSE3 function not implemented or something? Thanks and please don't tell me to search, i did. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 (edited) I wouldnt think its anything to do with sse3 m8 when i had 10.4.7 and below on my notebook apple dvd player played great . My note book is only a centrino pentium M735 1.6 ( sse2 ) so sse3 has nothing to do with it i think something to do more like with the update dvds or just 10.4.8 in general Edited January 10, 2007 by curlyboy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-272633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 my dvd was dead slow (1fps) on sse2 1047 without 1048 kenrel so no ci/qe with 1048 kernel and ci/qe everthing went smooth like butter. however i believe appledvd player is using hardware accel if it can find one, apple was always the only one who knows how to support one. no other player shas support as i know. apple is not giving any info about that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-272801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 VlC player works spot on the way apple dvd player does for me in 10.4.7 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-272822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FierceDeityLink1 Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 No DVD playback here due to the PowerManagement.bundle, but VLC has poor image quality which makes me wonder how well DVD Player would look... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-272914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 vlc looks very good here when playing mgps, avi's etc. i did activate the auto deinterlacing and opengl output. Great colors, sharp image and no stutters Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-272966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yes vlc is a very good player , plays all movies mpg avi divx very very well just as good if not actually better than dvd player Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-272971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoSync Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Well, VLC plays them fine for me too, but when i go fullscreen it takes a lot more cpu... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-272994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchie Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Guess I am one of the lucky ones. Once I got QE/CI working DVD player runs movies fluently and it uses enough system resources to have it run in the background while surfing the web or doing something else. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-273209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
preachercrash Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 No DVD playback here due to the PowerManagement.bundle, but VLC has poor image quality which makes me wonder how well DVD Player would look... Are you saying that if you use the replacement powermanagement.bundle to get battery life display on 10.4.8, you can expect your DVD won't play? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-279626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulicat Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 As nutty as it sounds, but yea, the acpi hacked power management bundle does indeed interfere with dvd player. I just found this thread after trying to figure out why it wasn't working...I got audio, but no video, just a black screen. As soon as I reverted back to the original Powermanagement.bundle DVD Player started working perfectly. Weird, very weird. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-282356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnxcrazi Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 i get no playback at all... VLC crashes everytime as well, I am running 10.4.8 jas version on a dv1000 HP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-289627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FierceDeityLink1 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 After switching the output mode of VLC to OpenGL it looks a whole lot better, but I wish DVD playback would work in Front Row (one of the only good features IMO). Battery status is important, though... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-290212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuukka H Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 (edited) I got dvd playback when I installed this via pacifist http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/appl...vdplayer46.html and restarted (Interlaced off). Only thing is that frontrow wont work. But it can be because I tried to get dual working and did all kind of things in my system. Hopely this helps. Ok now I got it all working. I took files from my jas 1.4.6 dvd and made it start by rosetta. Files are same than dvdplayer46 install. So take a look those files and then search those from older installation disk (essential.pkg) and let it run using rosetta and remember not to use deinterlaced. Now even frontrow works.. So only miss is spdif, dual monitor and sleep.. Hopely someday.. Vlc is good but apples own is better if you have remote. Edited February 9, 2007 by tuukka H Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38196-dvd-playback/#findComment-298107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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