On Sunday 19 November 2006 4:35 pm, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:20 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > > Hi List; > > > > I just inatalled FC6 on a Pentium 2.2Gz thinkpad with 2G of memory. I > > installed mplayer, the mplayer codecs, xine, kaffeine, etc. Both Xine > > and Kaffeine play DVD's but the playback is slow & choppy. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help/advice... > > Hmm. First thing that comes to mind is the video scaling. Does it play > OK in a window and not full-screened? If so, it's likely that you're > using software scaling (raw X11 output) versus XVideo, which sends the > images to the video hardware and lets the GPU do the scaling (resulting > in vastly smoother playback). > > For mplayer, this is the "-vo xv" option (or you can set vo=xv in your > mplayer.conf file to make it permanent). For Totem, this can be set > through the Video tab in the GNOME Multimedia Preferences > (System --> Preferences --> More Preferences --> Multimedia Systems > Selector from the main GNOME menus). > > Also, is DMA enabled for your DVD drive? If not, this also causes a lot > of CPU usage too. Check that it is set (and set it if not) by running > `/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/dvd` as root (setting the device node as > appropriate). I tried this:# /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) I tried the same for /dev/dvd (which is a sumlink to /dev/hdc) with the same result. Also mplayer doesnt play any DVD's but Xine & Kaffeine do (although with the slow,choppy issue)
