Richard, et al -- ...and then Richard said... % % On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:51 am, David T-G wrote: % > Audio is great (almost always perfectly smooth), but the video is very % > burst-y. Any idea what I can do to make things smoother, perhaps by % > buffering the read from the disc? % % Make sure your DMA is active. Do % hdparm /dev/<whatever_your_dvd is> Hmmm... That doesn't seem to work for me: davidtg@hussy:~> ls -lF /dev/sr0 brw------- 1 davidtg disk 11, 0 Sep 9 2002 /dev/sr0 davidtg@hussy:~> hdparm /dev/sr0 /dev/sr0 not supported by hdparm davidtg@hussy:~> sudo hdparm /dev/sr0 /dev/sr0 not supported by hdparm Maybe because this is a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive instead of a hard disk? Thanks & TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!