playing DVD on pismo (powerbook)

[matthieu foillard <matthieu@taktile.com>]

hello, 
i try to make DVD ( xine, mplayer, or whatever else) works on pismo
(powerbook) system, but the video playback is _really_ slow.
i'm running debian sid on a 2.4.19-pre2 kernel.
ppl from xine project said me my DVD drive is to slow to read DVD :

# hdparm /dev/dvd

/dev/dvd:
  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
  I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
  using_dma    =  1 (on)
  keepsettings =  0 (off)
  HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Invalid argument
  readonly     =  1 (on)
  readahead    =  4 (on)
  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
  busstate     =  1 (on)

after i tried different setting using hdparm, i get : 

# hdparm -t /dev/dvd

/dev/dvd:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 18.92 seconds =  3.38 MB/sec

.. which is not enough to play DVD as xine project member said me.

btw, i could read DVD using apple player on MacOS, that's why i can't
understand why i can't make it working on linux.

any ideas ?


thanks all

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