RE: DVD Playing on iBook 2.2
Thank you for your suggestions.
I haven't ventured into ALSA territory on my iBook yet. I keep reading on
the list that a lot of people still have problems getting it to work
properly. so I stayed off it (and I might do that for a little while yet).
I was thinking that 2.6 might be better w/ preempt, but from this mornings
2.6 howto, it looks like that's still not running yet either.
I can wait. I was just wondering if I had convered all the available
options so far or not.
I am running whatever X server is currently in unstable (at least I tnink I
am :) ).
ajay
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Vincent Bernat [mailto:bernat@free.fr]
>>>Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 1:50 PM
>>>To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>>>Subject: Re: DVD Playing on iBook 2.2
>>>
>>>
>>>OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du lundi 15 décembre 2003, vers
>>>09:00, "Pisupati, Ajay" <ajay.pisupati@pw.utc.com> disait:
>>>
>>>> There might have been a similar question asked before
>>>on this list,
>>>> but I am not sure. so, here's my situation:
>>>> I have an ibook 2.2 800MHz with 256MB ram. I am running
>>>a 2.4.20-benh
>>>> kernel. No ALSA yet. Using Xine (also tried ogle) to
>>>play the DVDs. The
>>>> DVDs are playing, but they are quite choppy. Not so much
>>>that it is
>>>> unwatchable, but enough so that it is irritating. I have
>>>DMA enabled on
>>>> the drive. I am looking for any suggestions that will
>>>help me get a smooth
>>>> playback.
>>>
>>>First, use ALSA (and its OSS emulation). Here, with a 700 MHz iBook,
>>>DVD playback is almost fine : sound is OK and the image seems to jump
>>>every minute but it is hardly noticeable. I think that you should get
>>>a smooth playback with the additional 100 MHz.
>>>
>>>And make sure you really enable the DMA : echo using_dma:1 >
>>>/proc/ide/hdb/settings, sometimes it is disabled without any
>>>reason. Keep Xine, it is the best for DVD. For DivX, use mplayer.
>>>
>>>Remove your .xine, default settings are fine.
>>>What X server do you use ?
>>>--
>>>printk("What? oldfid != cii->c_fid. Call 911.\n");
>>> 2.4.3 linux/fs/coda/cnode.c
>>>
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