[SOLVED] iMac 24" with proprietary ATI drivers & DVD playback quality?

handy · 2008-05-02 06:41:27

I've recently installed Arch on my iMac, having watched 2 DVD's via VLC, I must say I am disappointed with the playback quality of the movies. I am wondering if any other people using the same iMac & the proprietary ATI drivers are experiencing the same poor quality playback? It is at its worse when there is the most visual demands.

I tend to think that the ATI drivers are responsible, as my other PC running Arch has an nVidia 7950GT/512, & it plays movies very well.

I'd love to hear of a fix for this problem, though I'm not hopeful?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by handy (2008-10-17 06:28:37)

lucke · 2008-05-02 06:53:41

The only thing I can suggest is to check whether it's also the case with mplayer and xine.

handy · 2008-05-02 13:28:43

lucke wrote:

The only thing I can suggest is to check whether it's also the case with mplayer and xine.

Thanks for your reply lucke.

Yes, it is the same in mplayer & totem.

The sound is ok, the video is not smooth, & horizontal banding in sections of the display can be seen throughout most of a DVD movie. It looks like the video card is not powerful enough to deal with the large screen, which of course is not the reality.

Last edited by handy (2008-05-02 13:34:33)

handy · 2008-10-17 06:27:45

The catalyst-8.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz is vastly improved from when I started this thread some months ago.

Watching DVD's with VLC or whatever player is thankfully perfectly acceptible now.

Arch Linux

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[SOLVED] iMac 24" with proprietary ATI drivers & DVD playback quality?

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