On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 03:28, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
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
:-) If you read the original posting, that was what I've just done, in the hope that this would mend the choppiness.
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'm not sure which output plugins I used in xine (probably the default option), but I got pretty much the same output from ogle and mplayer. The only other oddity is that MPlayer complained that it couldn't initialise the audio codec to play the DVD, but ogle coped with it fine (although the video was still choppy).
Where do I go from here?
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Turning on DMA using hdparm worked for me and I run a 1.2 T-bird with a Radeon LE. What method did you use to try turning on DMA?