Re: dvd playback problems and questions
-- John <bagdanof@attbi.com> wrote
(on Monday, 06 January 2003, 07:26 PM -0800):
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> > I'm trying to setup my computer to play DVDs, and I'm trying out a
> > number of different programs to see which works best. Just for
> > informational purposes, the machine I'm using is a 1.7GHz (PIV) with
> > 256MB RAM, DVD player but no hardware DVD decoder, and an onboard
> > GeForce video card (not sure which one -- I'm waiting for the computer
> > to finish an fsck).
> >
> > Ogle is nice, and the dvd navigation menus work flawlessly. Audio syncs
> > fine, but the video is a bit choppy.
>
> I use Ogle; I solved my choppiness by turning on dma:
>
> hdparm -q -d1 /dev/hdd (my dvdplayer)
Doh! I hadn't considered that I could turn on dma for a cd/dvd device!
That did the trick *beautifully*! Thanks!
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
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