[Techtalk] xine drops too many frames
Wim De Smet
kromagg at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 20:43:14 EST 2005
On 7/24/05, Nneoma <nneoma at chemeng.uct.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi Mike
> I did as u suggested with the results
>
> root at blubox:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd
> /dev/dvd:
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument
>
> However, I am trying to watch an avi file that is saved to my harddisk.
> hdparm /dev/hda gives
> <snip>
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> <snip>
> The video output is still slow (kinda choppy)
> Thanks
> Nneoma
>
I've had similar problems with xine. Try going into the options,
enable the advanced options and look for the video output driver.
Changing this might help, though I think something might just have
broken in xine too.
greets,
wim
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