[xine-user] Re: xine-user digest, Vol 1 #770 - 6 msgs

[Tim D. <de...@cl...>]

Hi Everyone,
I'm running FreeBSD4.5PRERELEASE, PentiumII-350, 196MB RAM.
Using an ATI AIW 128 (not the pro) w/32Mbs RAM. Crystal Sound card (Don't
remember the model, but it works fine with MP3 playback) I'm using a
Creative Labs 6x Encore DVD drive (not the Dxr3 card though, the ATI does
DVD natively).

I'm having a lot of trouble with choppy DVD playback and sound sync
problems as well.
So much so, that playback will usually crash after the first couple of
chapters.

I'm aware that DVD playback is very resource intensive, but this was a
Win98 system in it's previous life and DVD playback was nowhere near the
resource hog it is here.

I've done some tweaking with my hardware (not hdparm, it doesn't even
compile, let alone run, on BSD systems), added the following to
/boot/loader.conf
hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"
This bit turns on DMA for my DVD drive (Hey DMA for my DVD* I made a silly
;)   )

I've rebuilt my kernel to use the SSE/MMX extensions
options         CPU_ENABLE_SSE          #Enable MMX/SSE Extensions

And I've avoided runing any apps that I don't need (have to run KDE
though), while testing things.

These changes have had NO (good or bad) effect on playback quality.

Basically, I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do to speed things
up and make this a little more usable.
I'm using a 5800 RPM harddrive, I don't think that would have any effect
on playback, but I'm willing to consider it. Would installing a 7800rpm
drive and mounting my swap partition on that help speed things up for
playback?


Is there anything else I can do to make DVD playback more enjoyable?
(I know I sound like I'm whining, but I'm really stumped here)  ;)

Thanks guys!

--

Tim DeBoer
http://www.freebsd-geek.com

"When you find yourself in the company of a Halfling and an ill-tempered
Dragon, remember, you do not have to outrun the Dragon... 
...you just have to outrun the Halfling."