FC4: jittery DVD playback

Gilboa Davara gilboada at netvision.net.il
Mon Nov 7 13:01:18 UTC 2005


I believe there was a problem with ATA DVDs DMA in one of the recent
kernels that was solved by the latest -testing kernel. (Need to search
the archive on that one)
Which kernel are you using?

Gilboa

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:56 +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
>    Last time I tried this (same DVD drive, FC3) it was fine.
>    Now, FC4 and one spanking new mobo later (was dual 533Mhz Celerons, now 
> 3.0Ghz P4) I tried a DVD yesterday and it plays jittery:  I get a partial 
> secnod of playback, then a brief pause, then play, then pause.  The glitch 
> seems to maintani the same periodicity, and audio sounds fine.
> 
>    And I get the same symtom with both ogle and xine.
> 
>    Any thoughts as to where to look?  I believe I've enabled 32-bit DMA on my 
> DVD ROM drive.
> 
> -- 
> [neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
> [neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
> ls: .signature: No such file or directory
> [neil at fnx ~]# exit
> 




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