Xine brings comp to its knees

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Xine brings comp to its knees
started by: anti_microsoft

Posted by anti_microsoft on Sep. 08 2005,05:04

Hello, When I use Xine with a DVD it is very choppy. video goes then stalls goes then stalls, sound does the same. My computer is rather modern so I know thats not it. Any ideas?

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 11 2005,04:48

Try turning on DMA for your DVD drive.

You can do it by either booting with the

dsl dma

cheatcode, or you can activate it after bootup by typing:

sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc

from inside a terminal window. In this example, your DVD drive is located at device /dev/hdc