Re: Recent poor DVD playback performance

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On Monday 27 November 2006 12:28, Philip Walden wrote:
>Craig White wrote:
>>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.
>>
>>----
>>what does top tell you? Where is your cpu power getting sucked away?
>>beagled?
>
>Top says Xorg0 @ 68%, mplayer @ 28%.
>
Wow! xorg is like 2% average here.  That sounds as if its fairly seriously 
miss-configured somehow.

>Nothing much else is in the way.

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