[sclug] xine and jittery movies

[lug at assursys.co.uk]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Chirstopher West wrote:

> I've just taken the brave choice and moved my computer to run on Debian
> Woody r3.0?[and i thought that suse was good :) ]. I got xine and
> installed libdvdcss2 and got it to play back the Matrix?and?then
> recompile the kernel to enable?the sound card and optimise it for my
> Pentium 4, but then i tried to?play the?Matrix again and?it give me
> nothing or just bitty play back. i think i've narrowed?it?down to
> something in the kernel?because if i boot up on the old kernel it plays
> happily but with no sound (hence the recompile of the kernel), can
> someone tell me what i've selected in the kernel to do this or another
> work around.

Low-latency scheduling?

IDE DMA/32-bit IO/Interrupt unmasking?

Raw devices?

> thanks,
> chris

Best Regards,
Alex.
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