DVD choppy

[alan]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Alan wrote:

>> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14
>> ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15
>> scsi0 : ata_piix
>> ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
>> ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 8
>> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> scsi1 : ata_piix
>> ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
>> usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
>> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
>> scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST980825AS       8.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
>
> Disk at UDMA/133, CD at UDMA/33 - that all looks good.
>
> The other bottleneck then would be the video - what video hardware does
> it have ?

It is an Intel 945GM Chipset (according to the dmesg log posted).

Sound like either the hardware acceleration is not enabled or the player 
is using a video mode that is inefficient or not working.

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