On 09 September 2006 18:28, Grant wrote: > My DVD playback is pretty bad. I'm using mplayer and if I use > -framedrop it's watchable but the dropped frames are very noticable. > If I don't use -framedrop the audio and video is way out of sync and > the playback actually stops after a short time. > > I asked the mplayer list about this and one guys says his Celeron 366 > can play DVDs no problem and I must have "serious configuration > problems." What would you guys suggest for solving this performance > problem? DMA is enabled on my hard drive and DVD drive.
post your /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/meminfo. Additionally, what is your cache size in mplayer? I(ncreasing it to 2MB solved all the problems I once had. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list