Back to Everything Unix

My DVD is sluggish

Everything Unix Technical

Started by DarkHamster November 10, 2002 04:02 PM

1 comment, last by DarkHamster 21 years, 5 months ago

DarkHamster

180

Author

November 10, 2002 04:02 PM

my DVD playing (with MPlayer) is sluggish -- I tried everything they have in the readme, and my computer is definitely fast enough to be playing these things. What I was wondering, is could this be my DVD-ROM drives fault? And if so is there any way I can rip the image to my hdd and play it smoothly from there?

"There is no dark side of the moon really,
As a matter of fact, its all dark."

Anonymous

November 10, 2002 05:17 PM

Did you try this as root ?(from the manual).

<HR>
hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)

This enables DMA access, read-ahead, and IRQ unmasking (read the hdparm man page for a detailed explanation).
<HR>

Most important part is the -d1 (DMA access).
Heard that using a ultra dma 66 or higher ide cable helps too.

DarkHamster

180

Author

November 10, 2002 08:42 PM

I did try that -- it tells me that the operation is not permitted (the -d1 part)

"There is no dark side of the moon really,
As a matter of fact, its all dark."

My DVD is sluggish

This topic is closed to new replies.

Popular Topics

Recommended Tutorials

My DVD is sluggish

This topic is closed to new replies.

Popular Topics

Recommended Tutorials

Reticulating splines