On Friday 29 November 2002 02:53, Oliver Maunder wrote:
In a previous message, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
As for the machine specs, which someone else asked for, it's an Athlon 1.2GHz, 256 MB RAM, NVidia GeForce2 MX/400. I play DVDs with nothing extra running (i.e. new login, play DVD). Under Win98, DVDs play nice and smoothly so it *ought* to work fine under linux. I'm using the nv drivers because I can't get the nvidia drivers to let me use a screenmode above 1280x1024, and I like 1600x1200.
I have the same spec machine and Dvd's display fine with no jerkyness. However I DID have to turn on dma on the Dvd drive. Before I did that then it was not acceptable and I did get jerkiness. I ran the xine-check and it told me what parameters to pass to the dvd to turn on dma stuff. Btw If I ripped the dvd to the hardrive and played it from there then I had no jerkiness so thats what made me suspect that I needed dma or something similar to make it work properly. It might be worth a try to do that and see if you get acceptable playback from the harddrive. I am also using the nv drivers. Glenn