On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 12:27, matthieu foillard wrote: > 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 ? Your computer is too slow. MacOS has drivers for hardware Motion Compensation and iDCT, Linux doesn't. I still haven't found the miracle solution (which probably is "get better hardware"). Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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