On Thu June 5 2003 8:49 pm, Rick Friedman wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote to the list saying that I was having problems with DVD playback. The playback was stuttering and very jerky. DMA was already enabled for the drive so that wasn't it.
Well, last night I made a change to a setting that has solved the problem. DVD playback is now as smooth as silk.
The setting I changed was as follows:
In YAST2->SYSTEM->Powertweak Configuration, under the configuration options, I expanded the "Hardware" option. Then, I expanded the "Disk" choice followed by the "HDD" (my DVD drive device) choice.
Two more choices then present themselves. The first, "hdd_ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY" is the one that I adjusted. The default value was 128. I lowered it to 64. That did it.
I just wanted to post this in case there's someone else out there having the same problem I had. First & foremost, make sure you have DMA set for your DVD drive. If it is, and you still have jerky playback, try the above.
Rick
Pure genius. THANKS. Smoothed my DVD playback where there used to be an occasional stutter. How did you find this tweak? What led you to think of it or try it? Stan