[MPlayer-users] Weird DVD playback

[Ivan Kalvachev]

I have seen that on CD-RW, that sometimes my cd-rom  reads awfully slow.
I am not sure does cache option work woth DVD, but you can try to add
-cache 32768 at mplayer command line, this will make a 32MB input buffer.
If this doesn't help try to copy(rip) some part of the dvd on your HDD and
 run it with mplayer from there.
Also try to tune your DVD with hdparm utility. Be careful!

There used to be reports for very slow playback when scsi emulation is
turned on in the kernel (for CD-Writer), i donno how actuall is that
nowdays. Oh, same for some (old) RH precompiled kernels.

joe said:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Thanks to everyone who helped me with my sound
> problem, turns out my /dev/dsp*  had the permissions set wrong,
> everything works great now with DivX.
>
> I'm having a new problem though. DVD's have this odd skipping thing
> going on.  It's not exactly skipping, the movie plays for three seconds,
> pauses for a  half second then plays three seconds etc. I have tried
> every possible option  to stop this behaviour and all I have succeeded
> in doing is getting the first  3 minutes to play smooth, then the
> pausing starts.
>
> I checked, and this also happens when I use vlc or any other DVD player.
> I am  using a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-103, ATAPI CD-DVD-ROM drive. Drive
> worked perfect  as a player/recorder in my Macintosh G3.
>
> Running mplayer or vlc in verbose mode reveals no messages that show the
>  problem.
>
> Any advice anyone?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Joe