Re: Recent poor DVD playback performance

On Monday 27 November 2006 12:28, Philip Walden wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 21:07 -0800, Philip Walden wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 16:54 -0800, Philip Walden wrote:
I have FC5 and recently my DVD playback has tanked.

Both xine and mplayer (from livna and greysector repos respectively)
act like they cannot read the dvd fast enough. Xine plays for about
10 seconds and then freezes for a a second or two, plays some more
and then freezes again. Meanwhile the disk led is dark with minimal
activity. The same thing happens with a mounted DVD in the DVD-ROM
drive. So it is not my disk. Mplayer complains that "Your system is
too SLOW to play this!"

It is a 800Mhz athlon with 256MB memory and a nvidia tnt2 AGP using
the nv driver. Although it is older machine, this system was great
at playing DVDs up until a couple of weeks ago. So I suspect a yum
update might have done something. Before this, I have been playing
DVDs on it happily for a couple of years from RH9, to FC4 and now
FC5.

Anyone have some ideas for me to try oir areas to explore?

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Thread - DVD playback slow & choppy

Thanks for the tip. But I had already tried both avenues suggested:
making sure to use xvideo and disk dma.

It must be something else.

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what does top tell you? Where is your cpu power getting sucked away?
beagled?

Top says Xorg0 @ 68%, mplayer @ 28%.

Wow! xorg is like 2% average here. That sounds as if its fairly seriously
miss-configured somehow.

Nothing much else is in the way.

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