Re: [xine-user] Xine is choppy

[Net L. <net...@li...>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Dennis D Courtney wrote:
> This is what I get when I use hdparm:
>  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
>  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
>  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly     =  1 (on)
>  readahead    =  8 (on)
>  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

any errors in dmesg?  what kind of DVD drive do you have?  is it on a
dedicated IDE channel?

you might also want to try some of the /proc tuning suggestions here:
http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/cd-dvd.html

>
>
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:00, Net Llama! wrote:
> > hdparm might be useful/helpful.
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Dennis D Courtney wrote:
> > > Mandrake 9.1rc2  i686.  It's any DVD I try that is encrypted.  It worked
> > > for a while, then after I changed DVDs it started this.  I'm trying to
> > > watch ST:TNG season collections.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:41, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > what kind of movie type is this?  what kind of hardware/OS?
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Dennis D Courtney wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I recompiled xine.  It worked beautifully except that it was not playing
> > > > > the entire soundtrack (a file with dolby 5.1).  When I finally got the
> > > > > sound to work, the video became choppy.  I increased the buffers to 1500
> > > > > but it had no effect.  Any clues?  I'm using beta8 and ui 0.9.19
>

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