[Techtalk] xine drops too many frames

[Wim De Smet]

On 7/27/05, Nneoma <nneoma at chemeng.uct.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> Yes, I am talking about a laptop.  It has both kernel 2.4 and 2.6
> (Knoppix installed both kernels)  and I have tried working on both.
> 
> Ran the following commands
> 
> root at blubox:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd
> 
> /dev/dvd:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument
> root at blubox:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom
> 
> /dev/cdrom:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument
> 
> 
>  @blubox:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             5.8G  4.6G  982M  83% /
> /dev/hda1              14G   11G  3.5G  75% /mnt/windows
> /dev/hda4             7.6G  1.8G  5.5G  25% /home
> 
> I wonder what HDIO_SET_DMA failed means?  I still get choppy video output.
> 
> Wim:
>     I changed the video output driver options as u suggested but still
> no luck.
> 

Hmm when running xine from a console, do you get messages like
"compiled for BRGA output, but extension not available"? I had that
with the one I was using yesterday and playback was indead choppy. But
then I upgraded everything and the problem disappeared.

greets,
Wim