Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-10 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Sounds like you have a bad dvd drive (or badly configured IDE (e.g. no DMA)). The results are the same whether on my reader/burner or my read-only drive. Perhaps the DMA part (though dma is apparently configured)?

Re: [Solved in a round about way] Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:27:27PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Who knows, though? What boards do people really have no problems with? I'm not against switching, though my wife's eyebrows will likely go up... ;-) I use Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe in a case with good fans. Board temperatures

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
which player are you using? what else is running? whats cpu usage like? Dean Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is this an issue with the amd64 arch, or something else? I have an AMD 5600+ cpu paired with an Nvidia 7600 GS card, which strikes me as more than adequate to work with a DVD (my older XP

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 00:51 -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: are you using compiz/beryl/XGL? None of the above, though I couldn't find beryl/xgl (xgl is apparently part of a few other packages) you should not have problems with that hardware... glx is working? Don't know how to tell.

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 15:52 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: which player are you using? I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. what else is running? whats cpu usage like? I disabled everything else including xscreensaver, and shutdown folding @home as

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ** One thing that comes to mind is that I have no patch audio wires from the player to the MB at this point. Could this make a big difference in what the player has to do to get things to work? This would/should make no

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. xine perhaps? Although mplayer tends to work too. I disabled everything else including xscreensaver, and shutdown folding @home as well.

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:08:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. I don't know your board. My EN7300GT Silent does the mpeg conversion in hardware

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 14:03 +0200, Daniel Tryba wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ** One thing that comes to mind is that I have no patch audio wires from the player to the MB at this point. Could this make a big difference in what the player has to do

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:08 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. xine perhaps? Although mplayer tends to work too. Codeine is a frontend to xine, and

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: The results are the same whether on my reader/burner or my read-only drive. Perhaps the DMA part (though dma is apparently configured)? hpotter:/home/daddy# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings |grep -i dma using_dma0

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 13:47 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:41:33AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Ahh. I had not seen this earlier when I scanned your letter briefly before answering someone else's up the list. My result: using_dma 0 0

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:09:43AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Always good to hear... :) The board had a good Linux review when I got it from Newegg. Given the number of updates and problems on lkml for the SB600, I have a hard time believing someone would consider it a good linux board.

[Solved in a round about way] Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:27 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:09:43AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Always good to hear... :) The board had a good Linux review when I got it from Newegg. Given the number of updates and problems on lkml for the SB600, I have a

Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is this an issue with the amd64 arch, or something else? I have an AMD 5600+ cpu paired with an Nvidia 7600 GS card, which strikes me as more than adequate to work with a DVD (my older XP 2500+ had no problems...). The video is literally jerky, and poorly sync'd with the audio. It doesn't seem