On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Anita Lewis wrote: > Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and > use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. I > then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still have > the thing set to scd0. > > So, I now get the movie going just fine at the right speed with audio. Very > nice for about 15 seconds and then the audio cuts out. The video keeps > going which makes me think that the bus speed is ok. Anyone here know > anything about this? Maybe MPlayer is a little complex for the job. I was > going to try Xine, but I saw that they don't decode. I had to install the > lib for css separately for MPlayer too; so maybe that is what you do with > Xine.
Go with Xine. Its worth all the extra effort. See my SxS for building Xine, and its very easy to build. MPlayer is a great movie player, but i've had loads of problems trying to get it to work right with DVDs, while Xine has always worked perfectly for DVDs. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
