LinuxQuestions.org - Not able to play DVD's - No YV12 overlays and XVideo support, 3D Blaster Banshee 16Mb

Hi,

I run a Slackware 12 out of the box on a Pentium III 450 MHz, 192Mb of RAM, 40 GB HDD, video card 3D Blaster Banshee 16Mb, ASUS DVD ± R / RW drive (DRW-1608P3S).

I’ve been for some time trying to play DVD’s with xine but I always get the same problem with the error:

The amount of dropped frame is too high, your system might be slow, not properly optimised or just too loaded.

BTW – DMA is enabled.

After googling for some time I found out about xine check (yes, I did not know about that –that’s why I’m a newbie, right?-), which gives me:

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
That means xine will have to do color space transformation and scaling
in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
X server will help here.
If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
That means xine will have to do color space transformation and scaling
in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
X server will help here.
If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support...
XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This
extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space
conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost.
If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all
kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles, though...
press <enter> to continue...

When I saw this I turned to google once again and after many dead ends (and lots of never-got-an-answer threads in various forums) I found this:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33810145

I’ve been going thru my XF86Config but could not find anything ATI related or saying “VideoOverlay” or “OpenGLOverlay”, I assume this is because I don’t have an ATI card. Or (most probable) I’m looking in the wrong place.

I also found this:
Why colours of overlays/subtitles seem to be "leaking"?
xine blends most overlays, specially the ones from DVD discs, directly over the image (scaled OSD). Unfortunately most codecs (like MPEG2) use a subsampled image format (YV12) that makes properly blending an interesting challenge.
In short, this is a known xine bug. There have being discussions on improving the blending quality but, so far, nobody implemented a better (scaled) overlay renderer. Contact developers if you want to try doing something about it.
I’m really not sure if that has something to do with my problem…

I did not get better results with MPlayer or Ogle.

Finally, my point is:
I want to know how could I solve this. Am I missing some configuration for the Video Card? Would nVidia drivers help with my card? (I assume not but asking won’t kill anyone :p) Should I add OpenGL to my box?

I was able to play DVD on this machine when it had Windows, which leads me to discard the “my machine is too slow” (I mean, I know the hardware is capable of doing it. I just have to figure out how! :)) Oh… and by the way I really appreciate the learning experience this is for me.

Note: I don’t have a connection to the internet at home, so please, if it takes some time for me to reply back, don’t take that as a lack of interest. :)