[vdr] Re: DVD Playback

[Lauri Pesonen <lauri.pesonen@firsthop.com>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:54:47AM +0100, Jean-Claude Repetto wrote:
> 
> > Hello again,
> >
> > i solved my problems with libdvdread-0.9.1 and libdvdcss-0.0.3; Thanks to
> Juergen Scherer!
> > I can playback DVDs but not smoothly; the playback stops every one to five
> seconds for a short while. In my box there is a P233MMX an vdr uses about
> 70-90% of CPU time. Hdparm -E 2(-8) /dev/dvd does not affect this behaviour.
> > Does anybody have expierience with minimum configuration for DVD playback?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >  Christoph
> 
> I'm using a Pentium 200 MMX with 40Mb RAM, no problems to play DVDs.
> 
> Jean-Claude

It's probably a DMA issue. Use hdparm to enable DMA on the DVD-drive.

-- Lauri