[MPlayer-users] performance vs. wm, or gnome?

[christopher j bottaro]

have you tried this from the faq?
"hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)
This enables DMA access, read-ahead, and IRQ unmasking (read the hdparm man 
page for a detailed explanation)."

rh8.0 won't let you turn on DMA unless you do the following:
"gotta add 'options ide-cd dma=1' to /etc/modules 
and reboot."

hope that helps, it cured my crappy dvd playback probs...=)
-- christopher

P.S.  i use kde-3.1 which is pretty resource intensive.  there are tiny skips 
when playing back movies unless the movie window is the currently active 
window (i.e. has input focus).

On Monday 10 February 2003 01:01 am, Brian Craft wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Continuing my search for video performance problems in rh8.0, I just found
> that if I create a minimal .xinitrc with an xterm and sawfish, I can play
> back full frame rate dvd with mplayer or gmplayer.
>
> Anyone know how metacity, nautilus, gnome-session, etc., might be affecting
> this?
>
> The machine is still struggling more than it should, but at least it's
> basically working. I also tried running the xf86 4.1.0 server from rh7.1 to
> see if that had any effect, and ran x11perf against it. Notably, the 4.1.0
> server (rh7.1 binaries) running on rh8.0 scores the same as the 4.2.0
> server -- significantly slower than the same server running on rh7.1. So
> something else has changed to cause the slow-down. glibc?
>
> b.c.
>
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