RANT: DVD playback is rough

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/2/06, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/06/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [root at Watson ~]# rpm -qa | grep dvd
> > libdvdcss-1.2.9-2.lvn5
> > libdvdread-0.9.4-4.lvn5
> > dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-6.2.1
> > mythdvd-0.19-122.rhfc5.at
> > libdvdnav-0.1.10-2.lvn5
> > libdvdplay-1.0.1-4.lvn5
>
> Hm. This is a long shot, but perhaps you need to enable DMA for your DVD drive.
>
> /sbin/hdparm /dev/hda |grep dma
>
> will tell you if it's enabled - of course you'll need to replace
> /dev/hda with the device for your DVD player.
>

DMA is on. I have all but given up on this, and realised that I just
may have to reboot for this one. Which sucks because my DVD player in
Windows doesn't support 5.1 sound.

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