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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
