On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:07, Rohit wrote:
I was playing DVD on Linux using mplayer which is home-built using libdvdnav and libdvdread [not libdvdcss]. The playabck starts, and then becomes jittery, and then pauses intermittently and finally hangs after two minutes of play.
Do you have your drive set to us DMA? This is typical behaviour when not useing dma. Set this in YAST not via hdparms. Yast does it at the right time, hdparms is after idescsi, and often fails.
Two questions: 1> In attempting to set up for DMA (not knowing what it was (or is) I went into YASY hardware config / CD Drives, and saw that my CD/DVD drive, while listed, wasn't selected. So I selected it. This caused things to break, and I don't know how to fix 'em... I'll explain in a moment. 2> Before I get too far off the topic, exactly what is DMA, and how do you set it up? Okay. Back to my new problem. Now the CD-RW/DVD (combo) drive works as a CD-ROM only. Well, probably a CD-RW as well, but I havn't tested it out yet. And it reads DVDs. But when a DVD is in the drive, I no longer see the nifty CD-Recordable icon change to read "DVD" -- which implies that this is a system problem. When I go into Xine to try to play the DVD, it can't find /dev/dvd. Until now, I have had no problem accessing the DVDs through xine. (Well, not completely true, I was getting very jerky feedback, which is what caused me to seach the archives and find the above message from a few days ago.) So I go back in remove it. Now I've lost the entire drive -- Linux can't see it at all! It appears that some bizzare half-setting is the correct setting for my CD/DVD drive, but I only have "Add" and "Remove" as options. I don't see a way to manually edit things. (For that matter, I'm not sure what they should be set to... But I am willing to play around and guess...) I'm running SuSE 9.0 on a fresh install, and have loaded the patches available from the website. I've removed xine from the system, and loaded a non-crippled version that was working smoothly (aside from the aforementioned problem). I'm at a loss here. Any ideas/suggestions/thoughts on how to get my DVD functionallity back? Thanks in advance! Krikket