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26 Nov
2002
26 Nov
'02
21:50
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 6:01 pm, John Pettigrew wrote:
The choppiness is not affected whether I use nvidia+opengl or nv without opengl. Nor does it matter whether I use xine, ogle or mplayer. Am I stuck with this poor playback?
Have you tried turning on DMA on your DVD drive? Note that your DVD drive may be linked to a SCSI device (eg on my machine /dev/dvd is linked to /dev/sr1), but you still enable DMA on the IDE device (in my case on /dev/hdc, which would be the IDE equivalent of sr1). Try: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc from teh commandline, as root, and then try playing a DVD. If this shows an improvement, then add the above line to /etc/init.d/boot.local. HTH Kevin