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? Craig
