[vlc] Re: stop and go at 1800 Mhz machine

[John Andersen]

On Saturday 11 October 2003 03:43, Heiko Bätz wrote:
> hello,
>
> I use a self-compiled vlc-0.6.2 on a SuSE linux 8.2 machine with 1800 Mhz
> and 256 MB Ram
>
> When watching dvd i have the following problem:
>
> The Video-output is not smooth but stop and go. Sometimes it stops for some
> seconds and repeat form an earlier point.
>
> I don't think it's the  hardware,  because  under windows xp on the same
> machine everything works fine
>
> Greetings
> Heiko

Did you tell SuSE to run the DVD drive with ide dma on?
This will appear in
file:/etc/sysconfig/hardware
as a line like:
DEVICES_FORCE_IDE_DMA="/dev/hdd:on"

This setting is best done via yast2, but you can also do
it manually in that file.
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John Andersen

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