Re: Recent poor DVD playback performance

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On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 21:07 -0800, Philip Walden wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 16:54 -0800, 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?
> >>    
> >>
> >----
> >see the archives of this list (link in the footer)
> >
> >Check November 19th (1 week ago)
> >
> >Thread - DVD playback slow & choppy
> >  
> >
> Thanks for the tip. But I had already tried both avenues suggested: 
> making sure to use xvideo and disk dma.
> 
> It must be something else.
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what does top tell you? Where is your cpu power getting sucked away?
beagled?

Craig


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