Problems with DVD Playback

[Drew Swayze]

Elaine and I both had this problem as well.  Simple solution was to add

hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hdx (whatever drive is your dvd)

to /etc/init.d/bootmisc

DVD playback is now just fine again on my machine.

--drew

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 19:04, Carl R. Powers wrote:
> Several months ago I got DVD playback working using xine, gxine,
> totem, and MPlayer.  Since that time, something has changed so that
> now DVD playback is "choppy" or "jerky" - not a smooth continuous
> playback as it was and should be.  MPlayer seems to be the least affected.
> 
> I update often so my systems are up to date.  I've tried recompiling the
> GUI's, xine-lib, and the several libdvd* packages with no improvement.
> Have not been able to recompile MPlayer.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what's going on here?  It's not hardware - playback
> still works fine under Windows (PowerDVD) and under Fedora using the
> prebuilt rpms from freshrpms.net.
> 
> All help and suggestions appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> Carl R. Powers
> <powers at trac.wsmr.army.mil><powers at copper.net>
> 
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