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Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?



On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:16, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated:
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > > i'm trying to play DVDs.  i should have the hardware for it -- an
> > > AMD Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage fury pro video card; 512M of RAM.
> > > but, xine and ogle both appear to be dropping frames.
> > 
> > > that same thread also suggests that this might be a DMA issue
> > > (which VERA seems to define as "digital memory access").  how can
> > > i enable
> > 
> > Yo nori,
> > 
> > You are sooo close!  
> 
> yeah, i can smell it :)
> 
> > man hdparm 
> 
> hm, i have ... but i get:
> 
> orange:~# hdparm /dev/dvd
> /dev/dvd not supported by hdparm
> 
> > & enable dma on your dvd player.
> 
> how?

hdparm won't work on symlinks.

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