Re: very poor performance of DVD using vesa or fglrx-driver
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I ran into this same thing when I was setting up my media center. I
resolved it by changing the version of mplayer I was using to a more
optimized version (from 386 to 686) and am currently using mplayer-nogui
1.0-pre7 which has been working quite well.
HTH,
Seth
On Sat, 20 May 2006, B Thomas wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> DMA is enabled as far as I can see.
>
> hdparm report "Capabilities" as :
>
> DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5*udma6
> Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
>
> dmesg shows :
> ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15
> ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
> ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
>
> I think problem may be more to do with the yv12 overlays. But I
> find it surprising that this should not be supported by the
> fglrx-driver or the VESA driver. I am not sure how I can
> confirm this or find a workaround.
>
> regards
> b thomas
>
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:00:14PM +1000, Takis Diakoumis wrote:
> > i know this was just posted up but...
> >
> > it really sounds like the dvd isn't running in DMA mode. i had this
> > problem on my thinkpad at first, dvd would be choppy as you suggest,
> > music i played would also be. fixed it by enabling DMA on the drives -
> > in my case it was actually using the wrong kernel module for the drives.
> >
> > check the output of dmesg (as suggested by another) or the output of
> > hdparm -I
> >
> > hope this helps.
> >
> > Takis
>
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