[olug] DVD playback not optimal

[John DiMartino]

Do you have the DVD player to have DMA mode enabled?  I don't remember 
how to do it... but I'm sure you could google it pretty quickly.

Later,
John



On Feb 18, 2004, at 9:01 PM, Terence Bradshaw wrote:

> Hi, all-
>
> Just about every DVD playback tool I've used gives me similar 
> results... video playback is not choppy, but there is very apparent 
> interlacing of the image...  all images have jagged edges that are 
> more noticeable during quick movement on screen.
>
> I've managed to overcome this by using Xine and using deinterlacing.  
> The drawback, however, is that the image becomes somewhat blurry.
>
> I'm guessing that things are not set up optimally.
>
> My system is Gentoo, running on a 2.4.20 kernel with all tools at most 
> current non-masked version.  I'm running an AMD XP 2400+ processor, 
> 512MB of memory and a GeForce2 (can't remember the particular chip set 
> designation, but it was the cheap one).  The video drivers are the 
> proprietary Nvidia ones.
>
> In the past, I've had some DVD performance issues because I didn't set 
> up shortcuts the best.
>
> /etc/fstab follows:
>
> /dev/hda1               /boot           ext3            noauto,noatime 
>          1 1
> /dev/hda3               /               reiserfs        noatime        
>          0 0
> /dev/hda2               none            swap            sw             
>          0 0
> /dev/cdrw               /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         
> noauto,ro,user,exec     0 0
> /dev/dvd                /mnt/dvd        auto            
> ro,noauto,user,exec     0 0
> none                    /proc           proc            defaults       
>          0 0
> none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults       
>          0 0
>
> here is my /dev entry for /dev/dvd:
>
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            8 Feb 17 14:23 dvd -> /dev/hdd
>
> I would not be surprised if things should be set up differently.  Any 
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Terry
>
>
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