Hi Doug, Simple - I just put it in my /etc/init.d/boot.local hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd -- Bill On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:21 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Just how does one turn on DMA? --doug
At 18:51 06/11/2002 +0000, michael norman wrote:
I've been using xine for a while on the last few SuSE releleases. Oddly
enough
I never had to enable dma before for dvds to play really well until 8.0. This is on a p11 866 with 256mb ram. But I had to turn on dma in 8.0 to solve jerky playback I'd never had before. Wonder why ?
Mike
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 13:08, Bill Sheehan wrote:
Hi Kevin,
My favorite viewer is Xine. MPlayer is good, but I can't handle the scornful and patronizing attitude that seems to pervade the documentation, and it's a real bear to set up. I've got the Pioneer DVD player, a gig of RAM, an AMD 1800+ and an nVidia GT4600 - in short, pretty state of the art. DVDs still stuttered along. What fixed everything was turning on DMA on the DVD player and creating a raw device for it.
Instructions on how to do both are in Xine's FAQ.
Bill Sheehan Postmaster 617-373-7927
Kevin McLauchlan
cc: Subject: Re: [SLE] Watching DVD's in 8.0 06/10/02 02:56 PM On Saturday 08 June 2002 04:13, Graham Murray wrote:
Forrest Halford
writes: Just to start a friendly new thread, is anyone watching DVD's in Suse 8.0? How does one do it...?
Yes. I use Xine. You can download it from URL:http://xine.sourceforge.net. You might also want to use the Dvdnav plugin which is referenced from the same page.
What ELSE are you using? Same question to Ms. McKinney, with respect to vlc.
I've encountered two schools of thought on this.
1) you can run just the software (like vlc or xine), and that's all you need on a decent PC with a decent video card (i.e., if your hardware is no more than a couple of years old), for smooth video and sound from a DVD.
versus
2) you need a DVD decoder card to get smooth video and sound out of a DVD drive and onto your screen and speakers.
I have an Athlon 1.1 with half a gig of system memory, and a 32MB ATI video card and a Pioneer DVD drive. I've also got a Hollywood-clone decoder card (well, actually it's not a clone, it's just re-branded). In 18 months, I've never watched a DVD movie. There's always something wrong. Jittery, stop-motion video, or missing/garbled sound, or the program hangs, or won't start... or... or... I've had the decoder card in, and I've had it out. I've dozens of settings/tweaks that I saw suggested on the vlc mailing list (always trying to interpret for SuSE from the contributors' RH/Mandrake/Debian/whatever suggestions), until my blood pressure got too high, and I had to quit trying for a while. Can't get no satisfaction. It's been a few months; must be time to try again.
I wanna watch "Chicken Run" all the way through, dammit! :-)
/kevin
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