Re: dvd hdparm?

[Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Mauro <mcepeda@ualberta.ca> wrote:
>  
>> 
>> I've only just picked up on this thread, but my experience with a
>> *600MHz* G3 iBook is that it can't keep up with playing DVDs and xine
>> eventually gives up with a message that the CPU is too slow. It is
>> however possible to play a DVD on OSX -- so presumably Apple have access
>> to some features of the graphics chip that ATI won't tell about.
>> 
>> James
>  
> same here,
> has anyone tried 
> dmesg | grep DVD

$ dmesg |grep -i dvd
hdc: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, (U)DMA

> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX

# hdparm -d /dev/cdrom 

/dev/cdrom:
 using_dma    =  1 (on)

And mplayer plays them without this problems and without this cpu load.

Jörg.

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