[tslug] Re: DVDs

2004-04-05 Thread Ian Monroe
Minko Minkov wrote:
hello guys,
I don't know what is your experience with DVDs but I have a little 
problem. I use mplayer and it works fine, but when the DVD-ROM strats 
reading from the DVD the picture and the sound stops for a while. There 
was a suggestion to increase the cache. Even with the maximum cache of 
32768 it still kept pausing while reading from the media. If anyone has 
an idea how to fix that I'll be glad. Thanks
Minko

What distribution are you using? Do the DVDs work fine in other players? 
 Once one of the DVDs I checked out from the library made my DVD player 
make lots of noise and smell of burnt rubber, that was uncool.

So it starts playing the movie fine but occasionally shudders?

Does mplayer give any useful text output?

A method that might fix the issue without figuring out the problem is 
try installing another DVD player like Xine (with one of the encrypted 
DVD plugins) and see if that works.

Ian Monroe

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[tslug] Re: DVDs

2004-04-05 Thread Minko Minkov


Ian Monroe wrote:
Well, the distribution is SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.2.1 I tried Kaffeine 
0.4.2, it was running really good except the same problem. mplayer gave 
message for slow system:

   
    Your system is too SLOW to play this!  
   

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use ALSA 0.5 or the OSS emulation of ALSA 0.9.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try -hardframedrop.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
The system is Dell Latitude 1.8GHz Ati Radeon 32MB video, 256Ram.

Minko Minkov wrote:
 hello guys,
 I don't know what is your experience with DVDs but I have a little 
 problem. I use mplayer and it works fine, but when the DVD-ROM strats 
 reading from the DVD the picture and the sound stops for a while. 
There 
 was a suggestion to increase the cache. Even with the maximum cache of 
 32768 it still kept pausing while reading from the media. If anyone 
has 
 an idea how to fix that I'll be glad. Thanks
 Minko
 

What distribution are you using? Do the DVDs work fine in other 
players? 
  Once one of the DVDs I checked out from the library made my DVD 
player 
make lots of noise and smell of burnt rubber, that was uncool.

So it starts playing the movie fine but occasionally shudders?

Does mplayer give any useful text output?

A method that might fix the issue without figuring out the problem is 
try installing another DVD player like Xine (with one of the encrypted 
DVD plugins) and see if that works.

Ian Monroe

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