Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Curtis Rey <crrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 07 June 2003 07:51, John wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2003 21:38, Curtis Rey wrote:
> > On Friday 06 June 2003 12:46 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > On Friday 06 June 2003 23.45, Curtis Rey wrote:
> > > > Lol !  The list for xine at packman goes from a through p... Should I
> > > > focus on any particular packages of just install them all?
> > >
> > > first get libxine1, and all the dependencies listed on the libxine
> > > page. Then you can, if you want, get xine-ui and the xine skins
> > > (although I *much* prefer totem as a xine GUI).\
> >
> > Yep, that did it.  Works nicely.  Slight latency in vid playback, most
> > likely due to the sound being enable and using some resources.  I'll
> > apply the kernel low latencey patches that Charles gave me,  They worked
> > well before reinstall of kernel/promise kernel patch.
> >
> > Thanks Again Anders, and others.
> >
> > Cheers, Curtis.
>
>   Try that powertweak thing another poster wrote in about before doing a
> whole kernel job Curtis. It might save you some time. IIRR, he found a
> place where he changed some latency from 128 to 64 and it's helped a bunch
> of peopl. Found it! This is what he changed : "hdd_ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY"
> from 128 to 64

To John and Jon.  Yep.  Did this and solved it.  Halved both the read and 
write times for the drive and smooth as silk, no stutter, jerk, or frame 
jumps.

Nice to watch movies on a SyncMaster - just like HDTV!  :)

Cheers, Curtis.