[MPlayer-users] Smooth DVD Playback And OpenGL

[Jason Van Cleve]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 08:17:25 +0200
Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:

> does it play well with -ao null ? then audio driver bug...

Nah, it's the same with both -ao null and -nosound.  Harrison, I'll post
that backtrace for you tomorrow, regarding -vo gl2.  And if you think
the current CVS would be better, I'll try that instead.

--Jason V. C.


> 
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Rob, thanks, but your suggestion comes right out of the doc's, which
> > I've read more than once already.  As I said, DMA is enabled on my
> > drive:  if it weren't, Xine and Ogle would probably play funny too. 
> > Here's my output from hdparm (probably just like yours):
> > 
> > /dev/hdd:
> >  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
> >  I/O support  =  1 (32-bit)
> >  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
> >  using_dma    =  1 (on)
> >  keepsettings =  0 (off)
> >  HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Invalid argument
> >  readonly     =  1 (on)
> >  readahead    =  8 (on)
> >  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
> >  busstate     =  1 (on)
> >  HDIO_GET_ACOUSTIC failed: Invalid argument
> > 
> > Sergei, as I've mentioned, I've tried the -cache option already, using
> > several different values from 256 up to 20000.  The result is always the
> > same, which suggests to me this is a problem in the video output chain,
> > not the IDE read process.
> > 
> > Any other ideas?  Sounds like I should make a bug report, but I'm
> > hesitant about that, because there are really two separate issues here,
> > DVD video output and the GL modules.
> > 
> > --Jason V. C.
> > 
> > 
> > On 30 May 2002 23:29:34 -0400
> > Rob Wallace <rwallace at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> > > DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > >   But DVD playback (only DVDs, not AVIs) is a little
> > > > jerky with Mplayer (0.90pre4, built from source), just enough to be
> > > > irritating.  
> > > 
> > > I was having the same problem and I have almost the same hardware and
> > > software (Intel here). The jerky play back only affected DVD movies.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > >         LFS 3.3
> > > >         kernel 2.4.18
> > > >         libc 2.2.5
> > > >         XFree86 4.2.0
> > > >         gcc 2.95.3
> > > >         ld 2.12
> > > >         as 2.12
> > > >         Nvidia drivers 1.0.2960
> > > >         ALSA 0.9.0rc1
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > At first I thought it was the 2.4.18 kernel because when I rebooted
> > > (same Linux) with 2.4.9 everything was fine. In the end I found
> > > setting'hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 /dev/cdrom' solved the problem with the
> > > 2.4.18 kernel. Maybe that will work for you.
> > > 
> > > Rob
> > > 
> > > 
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