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

[John Andersen]

You might be able to get rid of that jerk too, 
See this page.  (I have not tried it).  The idea is to prevent
spindown, by making the drive just fast enough to keep up with
the damands.  

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/en/drives.html

On Sunday 12 October 2003 00:29, you wrote:
> HI John,
>
> good idea, many thanks. dma was off.
> Now video-output is much better. There's only a little jerk, when dvd-drive
> goes into silent mode
>
> regards
> Heiko
>
> Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2003 22:46 schrieben Sie:
> > 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.
> > --
> > _____________________________________
> > John Andersen

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