Recently, there has been a lot of discussion regarding the playing of DVD's on a combo dvd/cdrw drives. SuSE 8.2 was installed on a Toshiba Satellite with a combo drive. The install itself went without a hitch but movies on a DVD disc would not play. Mplayer files from Packman's site were downloaded and installed but Mplayer would not even start. After some research, Ed Harrison's mail to this forum provided a solution. The link to this post is : http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Apr/3850.html. In brief, the modules "cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi" have to be loaded. A file called "/dev/dvd" has to be created as a symbolic link to the combo drive. For example, on the pc here the drive is set up by SuSE as "/dev/sr0". The file "/dev/dvd" is a symbolic link to the sr0 file. In yast, the dma setting for the drive appeared and was switched on. Whereas previously, the playback was slow and jerky, it is now very smooth. Adjusting the DMA setting also fixed playback under windows as well. Regards. LW999
On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:07, LinuxWorld999 wrote:
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion regarding the playing of DVD's on a combo dvd/cdrw drives. SuSE 8.2 was installed on a Toshiba Satellite with a combo drive. The install itself went without a hitch but movies on a DVD disc would not play. Mplayer files from Packman's site were downloaded and installed but Mplayer would not even start.
After some research, Ed Harrison's mail to this forum provided a solution. The link to this post is :
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Apr/3850.html.
In brief, the modules "cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi" have to be loaded. A file called "/dev/dvd" has to be created as a symbolic link to the combo drive. For example, on the pc here the drive is set up by SuSE as "/dev/sr0". The file "/dev/dvd" is a symbolic link to the sr0 file.
I have a Sony VAIO laptop, with a Sony DVD/CD-RW combo drive. Under 8.1 I had to use the ide-scsi module to access the drive in any form; since I updated to 8.2, I'm only using ATAPI (ide-cd) mode, and everything works much better. I downloaded all the Xine add-on libs from packman.links2linux.de, and I can watch DVD movies without having to load ide-scsi. My /dev/dvd, /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrecorder are now all symlinks to /dev/hdc, and performance is much better. I did use the ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY tweak mentioned on this list, and yesterday I found a note about creating a link to the "raw" device which solved some issues I had playing a few DVDs (they were choppy even though others played fine). The only thing I have not gotten to work so far is Kscd, although since Xmms works fine for me it really doesn't matter. Mark Almeida -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2/Kmail 1.5.2
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