[MPlayer-users] DVD-video-stutters on RedHat 8

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 28 December 2002, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> This problem is not unique to mplayer (it happens with Ogle, too),
> but perhaps someone has experienced it and solved it.
> 
> When I play a DVD, I see pauses in the ASCII counter output, and pauses
> in the video window, every time the DVD light comes on.
[...] 
> Ironically, mplayer worked fine in the same situation when I had
> installed RedHat 7.3.  With RedHat 8.0, kabloooey!
> 
> Here are my suspects:
> 
>    IDE disk driver problem in 2.4.18 kernel (previous kernel was 2.4.7)
>    
>    Latest nVidia GeForce 2 GO driver

Nope. Enabling DMA for CD/DVD drives on RH8 requires some voodoo magic. :>
This should help:
echo "options ide-cd dma=1" >> /etc/modules.conf

PS. This is mentioned in RH8 release notes (AFAIR). I guess nobody reads
them...

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