[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD Playback problems (lots of info provided...)

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Phil, I'm in that case too. I have AMD 1.4 GHz, Geforce 4 and recent
DVD player.

could you check 'hdparm /dev/hdx' output and check if using_dma is
1(on) ?
on some distributions, this is disabled by default and you must set it
explicitely into /etc/sysconfig/harddisk*.

> Some more info:
> 1. The FAQ mentions making sure the drive is in DMA mode. It's in
> UDMA2 
> (i.e. UDMA33) according to hdparm -I.
> 2. I have a pretty new DVD drive (16X) with 512K of cache built-in.
> 
> I have tried everything else in the FAQ that seemed applicable
> (checks 
> FAQ again)... except -nobps, but this again seems like an AVI thing,
> not 
> a DVD thing. MPlayer says my system is too slow but I know it's not 
> (playback in windows is fine): 877Mhz Pentium III, 384MB RAM,
> GeForce3 
> with 64MB RAM, the DVD on it's own IDE chain and in UDMA2 mode, the
> HD 
> on it's own chain and in UDMA4 mode... it's plenty for DVD playback.
> 
> Given that docs seem to imply the ALSA9 drivers are not of the
> 'terribly 
> buggy' kind I'm thinking this is either a new alsa9 issue or an
> MPlayer 
> issue... of course, maybe I did somethign incorrect in configuration,
> I 
> dunno. But any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 


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