[olug] DVD playback not optimal

[Terence Bradshaw]

Hi, all-

Just about every DVD playback tool I've used gives me similar results... 
video playback is not choppy, but there is very apparent interlacing of 
the image...  all images have jagged edges that are more noticeable 
during quick movement on screen.

I've managed to overcome this by using Xine and using deinterlacing.  
The drawback, however, is that the image becomes somewhat blurry.

I'm guessing that things are not set up optimally.

My system is Gentoo, running on a 2.4.20 kernel with all tools at most 
current non-masked version.  I'm running an AMD XP 2400+ processor, 
512MB of memory and a GeForce2 (can't remember the particular chip set 
designation, but it was the cheap one).  The video drivers are the 
proprietary Nvidia ones.

In the past, I've had some DVD performance issues because I didn't set 
up shortcuts the best.

/etc/fstab follows:

/dev/hda1               /boot           ext3            
noauto,noatime          1 1
/dev/hda3               /               reiserfs        
noatime                 0 0
/dev/hda2               none            swap            
sw                      0 0
/dev/cdrw               /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         
noauto,ro,user,exec     0 0
/dev/dvd                /mnt/dvd        auto            
ro,noauto,user,exec     0 0
none                    /proc           proc            
defaults                0 0
none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           
defaults                0 0

here is my /dev entry for /dev/dvd:

lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            8 Feb 17 14:23 dvd -> /dev/hdd

I would not be surprised if things should be set up differently.  Any 
suggestions?

Thanks,
Terry