Recent poor DVD playback performance

[Philip Walden]

Craig White wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 21:07 -0800, Philip Walden wrote:
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>>Craig White wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 16:54 -0800, Philip Walden wrote:
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>>>>I have FC5 and recently my DVD playback has tanked.
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>>>>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!"
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Anyone have some ideas for me to try oir areas to explore?
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>>>see the archives of this list (link in the footer)
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>>>Check November 19th (1 week ago)
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>>>Thread - DVD playback slow & choppy
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>>Thanks for the tip. But I had already tried both avenues suggested: 
>>making sure to use xvideo and disk dma.
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>>It must be something else.
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>what does top tell you? Where is your cpu power getting sucked away?
>beagled?
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Top says Xorg0 @ 68%, mplayer @ 28%.

Nothing much else is in the way.