[MPlayer-users] stuttering outpout when play from drive

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 07:19:24PM +0200, Konstantinos Blatzonis wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello dear Mplayer users and develpoers,
> 
> Maybe I am a legasthenic or something like my problem is not described 
> anywhere in Docs or the Maillist-archieves. Anyway, perhaps somebody can help 
> me.
> Mplayer (0.90rc5) is dooing well. It plays even files, which are not playable 
> with Win*ows Me*iaplayer (9). But Videostreams, Mpeg-Files and even DVDs are 
> only watchable when ripped or copied on Harddisk. When playing VCD, SVCD or 
> just a simple Mpeg from DVD-Drive the movie is stuttering (video and audio). 
> >From Harddisk perfekt! My Computer is an Athlon 1,33 Ghz with 512 MB Ram and 
> GNU Debian Linux 3.0 with Kernel 2.4.17. The DVD-Drive is an 16X DVD (32X CD) 
> on the IDE-Bus.
> So when someone knows the problem and know how to solve it, please tell me.
> Thanks in advance!

hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 /dev/cdrom

BTW, this is in the FAQ.

Rich