Re: [xine-user] Probably not a good xine question, but still, please help a Linux newbie!

[Rashkae <ra...@we...>]

You probably need to turn on DMA access for your DVD rom device.

See man hdparm for more informatin.

hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd

for example, would work if your DVD drive is connected to /dev/hdd.



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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Torill Torp-Holte wrote:

I have just installed xine and got some performance problems when playing
DVDs.

The video and audio outputs were rather "jumpy", while the console was full of
messages like "picture thrown away as too old". It gave me idea of my DVD ROM
being too slow. To test the hypothesis, I copied a single VOB file to my hard
disk and ran xine again. This time both video and audio outputs were very
nice and smooth (though slightly unsychronized, but that's definitely an
another story).

Has anybody any idea about how to speed up my DVD ROM? I have an Asus DVD-E616
(16xDVD, 48xCD) which I thought of as not being the slowest in the world.
However...

I tried setting it up as as a raw device, as described in on of the xine
HOWTOs. However, it failed at the very fist step saying that "/dev/raw1 did
not exist" (which wasn't true, by the way). What I tried to execute was "raw
/dev/raw1 /dev/cdrom1"

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Doki,
Oslo, Norway





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