Recent poor DVD playback performance

[Philip Walden]

Craig White wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 16:54 -0800, Philip Walden wrote:
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>>I have FC5 and recently my DVD playback has tanked.
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>>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!"
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>>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.
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>>Anyone have some ideas for me to try oir areas to explore?
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>Thread - DVD playback slow & choppy
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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.