Dvd,dvd,dvd...

[Petr Janda]

By the way, it seems that the reason Xine is so slow is that it uses a 
lot of CPU just after start (no movie playing)

876 petr       230   0 59660K 53652K RUN      0:21 136.72% 97.61% xine

Any ideas on that, Joerg?

Petr

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:09:21AM +1000, Petr Janda wrote:
  
Mine is set to 0. SO I did sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 and it says:

sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.atapi_dma' is read only

Why is that?
    
It is a tunable as well, so set it in /boot/loader.conf.

  
atacontrol has shown me that the device was in PIO4, so I set it to 
UDMA4 instead(which is what my drive should be using as it supports it), 
but then my dvds couldnt be read so I tried UDMA2 and it improved it 
heaps though not perfect, and it seems that mplayer seems to crash more :S.
    
This is strange... Well, that the drive can't handle UDMA4 is not really
surprising, but you shouldn't see much issues with UDMA2.
*How* does mplayer crash?

Joerg