Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 14:03 +0200, Daniel Tryba wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > ** One thing that comes to mind is that I have no patch audio wires from
> > the player to the MB at this point. Could this make a big difference in
> > what the player has to do to get things to work?
>
> This would/should make no difference. The last time I had that cable
> attached was on a SB Pro.
>
> Sounds like you have a bad dvd drive (or badly configured IDE (e.g. no DMA)).
The results are the same whether on my reader/burner or my read-only
drive. Perhaps the DMA part (though dma is apparently configured)?
hpotter:/home/daddy# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings |grep -i dma
using_dma 0 0 1 rw
> Copy the DVD to HD (or a chapter with mencoder) and see if that does
> anything for performance.
Sorry, but how do I do that? Using dd? (All my computing knowledge is
built up--hobbyist level...)
Kenward
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