Recent poor DVD playback performance
Philip Walden
pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Mon Nov 27 18:23:00 UTC 2006
Craig White wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 21:07 -0800, Philip Walden wrote:
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>>Craig White wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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!"
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Anyone have some ideas for me to try oir areas to explore?
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>>>see the archives of this list (link in the footer)
>>>
>>>Check November 19th (1 week ago)
>>>
>>>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.
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>>It must be something else.
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>what does top tell you? Where is your cpu power getting sucked away?
>beagled?
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>
I have also been looking into MTRR settings. I was told that current X
servers would set these automatically, but looking at mine, it does not
seem to be working:
reg00: base=0x00100000 ( 1MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
From Xorg.0.log I get:
PCI:*(1:5:0) nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] rev 21, Mem @
0xf5000000/24, 0xfc000000/25
So the MTRR does not look right.
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