Recent poor DVD playback performance
Philip Walden
pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Mon Nov 27 01:22:42 UTC 2006
Philip Walden wrote:
> I have FC5 and recently my DVD playback has tanked.
>
> Both xine and mplayer (from livna and greysector repos respectively)
> act like they cannot read the dvd fast enough. Xine plays for about 10
> seconds and then freezes for a a second or two, plays some more and
> then freezes again. Meanwhile the disk led is dark with minimal
> activity. The same thing happens with a mounted DVD in the DVD-ROM
> drive. So it is not my disk. Mplayer complains that "Your system is
> too SLOW to play this!"
>
> It is a 800Mhz athlon with 256MB memory and a nvidia tnt2 AGP using
> the nv driver. Although it is older machine, this system was great at
> playing DVDs up until a couple of weeks ago. So I suspect a yum update
> might have done something. Before this, I have been playing DVDs on it
> happily for a couple of years from RH9, to FC4 and now FC5.
>
> Anyone have some ideas for me to try oir areas to explore?
>
> Philip
and I did check with hdparm that DMA was on for all my IDE drives.
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