[vlc] Re: video problems

[Eric Petit]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002, Jason Guyer wrote:
> I am using an AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz with a GeForce 3 Ti video card
> running an untweaked version of Red Hat 7.3. I recently installed vlc
> on there and when I go and run any DVD the video playback is choppy.
> Keeping in mind that I am a newbie, how do I get smoother playback?

The DMA of your DVD drive may be disabled. Run `hdparm -d /dev/dvd' to
check this; you can force DMA with `hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd'.
(I assume /dev/dvd links to your DVD drive, it may be /dev/cdrom or
whatever)

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Eric <titer at videolan.org>
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