Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've only just picked up on this thread, but my experience with a
>> *600MHz* G3 iBook is that it can't keep up with playing DVDs and xine
>> eventually gives up with a message that the CPU is too slow. It is
>> however possible to play a DVD on OSX -- so presumably Apple have access
>> to some features of the graphics chip that ATI won't tell about.
>>
>> James
>
> same here,
> has anyone tried
> dmesg | grep DVD
$ dmesg |grep -i dvd
hdc: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, (U)DMA
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX
# hdparm -d /dev/cdrom
/dev/cdrom:
using_dma = 1 (on)
And mplayer plays them without this problems and without this cpu load.
Jörg.
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