Thanks! I'll try it later tonight. /Lars Rick Friedman wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote to the list saying that I was having problems with DVD playback. The playback was stuttering and very jerky. DMA was already enabled for the drive so that wasn't it.
Well, last night I made a change to a setting that has solved the problem. DVD playback is now as smooth as silk.
The setting I changed was as follows:
In YAST2->SYSTEM->Powertweak Configuration, under the configuration options, I expanded the "Hardware" option. Then, I expanded the "Disk" choice followed by the "HDD" (my DVD drive device) choice.
Two more choices then present themselves. The first, "hdd_ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY" is the one that I adjusted. The default value was 128. I lowered it to 64. That did it.
I just wanted to post this in case there's someone else out there having the same problem I had. First & foremost, make sure you have DMA set for your DVD drive. If it is, and you still have jerky playback, try the above.
Rick