[Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft

[Kyle Gordon]

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Colin

It might your DMA settings, which you can tweak with the hdparm tool. 
/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/xxxX will enable DMA for a device, and just hdparm /dev/
xxxx on it's own will show the current state of the device.

My Celeron 1.2Ghz, 128Mb laptop played back DVDs fine with mplayer, so I doubt 
it's a memory/horsepower issue.

Regards

Kyle

On Monday 19 January 2004 23:23, Colin McKinnon wrote:
> ...off my laptop, that is.
>
> After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop
> (1Ghz / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so
> (video frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help
> much.
>
> Obviously there's not a lot of free memory on the box, but I don't want to
> go and buy more just to see if it might give better DVD playback.
>
> Meanwhile playback with WinDVD4 on Microsoft Windows XP is flawless.
>
> Anyobdy out there playing DVDs? How much memory?
>
> TIA
>
> Colin
>
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