[MPlayer-users] Poor DVD performance

[Felix Buenemann]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 17:14, Julian J. M. wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> El sáb, 04-05-2002 a las 14:35, Felix Buenemann escribió:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > On Saturday 04 May 2002 09:23, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > I have been experiencing poor DVD playback performance since I
> > > installed MPlayer from CVS a week or two before 0.90pre1 came out, and
> > > this has contined up to 0.90pre3. The video is jerky and slow. This is
> > > particularly noticable with -vo dxr3, which I wouldn't have thought
> > > would suffer from performance problems, but also with -vo sdl, -vo gl2
> > > and to a lesser extent -vo xv (which works but gets out of sync fairly
> > > quickly). I have tried -nosound and it makes no difference to the
> > > performance.
> >
> > is dma unmask_irq etc. enabled  for your dvd drive?
>
> 	How should it be? I posted some days ago that there is huge difference
> playing directly from DVD than from a dumped stream in the HD. Could
> this be the problem?
yes! read man hdparm or hdparm --help to leard how to enable it, note that 
this might only work if your kernel is compiled with support for your 
specific ide chipset, so precompiled kernels might not work. solution: comile 
own kernel then
>
> 	BTW, -cache 20000 fix partially the problem, but there video is still
> jerky. Under xine it doesn't happen, though.
>
> 	Greetings
> 		Julián.
>
>
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