On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:06, Manuel Panea-Doblado wrote: > please try the current versions vdr 1.3.19 vdr-dvd 0.3.6_b02, or cvs we do not support older versions in respect to our limited human resources :) afaik .. such stuttering and high cpu utilization is allready fixed .. sven > Hi, all. I have recently installed a DVD drive on my VDR machine to be > able to watch DVDs. > > I first tried the DVD plugin, but when playing a DVD there are many > short interruptions of video and audio, perhaps 3 or 4 every 10 > seconds, each very short, a 10th of a second perhaps, but it makes it > unusable. I have a slow CPU: a Pentium MMX at 200 MHz (400 bogomips), > but it is otherwise enough for other VDR functions, including > e.g. timeshifting. I checked the hdparm for the DVD and they seem to > be fine. I also tried copying a portion of the DVD to the harddisk and > playing it from there, with same results. So what is causing this > glitches while playing a DVD? > > Then I tried playing the DVD with Mplayer and it works very well! > Except that I haven't had much success configuring my remote control > for using it with Mplayer, so I can only control the DVD replay with > the computer keyboard. > > Does anyone know in what way the DVD plugin and Mplayer differ while > playing a DVD? I thought it must be just reading MPEG data from the > DVD and sending it to the DVB card, so why does Mplayer work well and > the plugin doesn't? > > And what are you people using to play DVDs? Should I rather try to get > the DVD plugin working right or should I instead invest my time in > configuring Mplayer to respond to my remote control? > > Some details about my VDR configuration: > > VDR 1.3.12, DVD Plugin 0.3.5b06, libdvdnav 0.1.9, libdvdread 0.9.4, > libdvdcss 1.2.8, liba52 0.7.4. > > Thanks for any help, hints or comments. > -- health & wealth mailto:sgoethel@jausoft.com www : http://www.jausoft.com ; pgp: http://www.jausoft.com/gpg/ voice : +49-5121-999600 ; fax : +49-5121-999602
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