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)? > > hpotter:/home/daddy# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings |grep -i dma using_dma > 0 0 1 rw
Like Lennart said: DMA is off. hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx might turn it on (but again like Lennart said: might depend on ide driver). > > Copy the DVD to HD (or a chapter with mencoder) and see if that does > > anything for performance. > > > Sorry, but how do I do that? Using dd? (All my computing knowledge is > built up--hobbyist level...) dd can be problematic with original discs due to CSS. mencoder is more likely to work: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -vf harddup -o out.mpg dvd://1 -chapter 1-1 (optionally: -dvd-device /dev/whatever) -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
