On Tuesday 29 October 2002 11:29, John Pettigrew wrote:
I've been trying to play DVDs on my SuSE 8.1 box with only partial success. Using either MPlayer or Xine, I can play DVDs but the playback is very jerky. Playing DVDs on the same box (Athlon 1.2 GHz, GeForce2 MX/400) under Windows is smooth, so there is definitely some improvement possible.
One possibility that occurred to me is DMA settings for the DVD drive. However, under SuSE 8.1, it's running as SCSI emulation. How do I check whether DMA is enabled - there's no listing under the DMA tool for the emulated drives.
What else should I look at, or do I resign myself to not watching DVDs under Linux?
TiA,
John open a console and run xine-check. That will tell you about dma. I set hdparm -dl -X34 /dev/hdc and the choppiness goes.
I.ve added that line to :/etc/init.d/boot.local so it runs on startup. Xine and Ogle run fine now here. Can't make head nor tail of how to use the mplayer supplied with 8.1 though. HTH Mike