-- Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 07 January 2003, 07:21 AM -0600): > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:54:26PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > I use Ogle; I solved my choppiness by turning on dma: > > > > > > hdparm -q -d1 /dev/hdd (my dvdplayer) > > Doh! I hadn't considered that I could turn on dma for a cd/dvd device! > > That did the trick *beautifully*! Thanks! > > Impressive that you came close to acceptable playback without it. I originally set up this machine to dual-boot with Win98SE so my wife could use some statistical programs on it. We tried playing DVDs a few times from Windows, but either a) it dropped lots of frames, or b) after 5-10 minutes it would lock up the machine but continue playing the audio track. Very annoying.
What's impressive to me is that I now get (seemingly) flawless playback on linux when I couldn't on Windows -- and this when Hollywood has been hell-bent on keeping dvd playback away from "unsupported" OSes and hardware. Go figure. ;-) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
