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I really want to play DVDs... I'm a total and I just got my first linux distro (redhat 8), so I'm not sure how to go about installing this. If someone would be kind enough to put up detailed instructions that'd be great
hmm weird.. it doesn't work.. I pasted it directly, so I couldn't have made a mistake.. gives me this error.. "no such file or directory".. I know it's in the directory I'm in.
Got everything installed, but the playback seems to skip every other second.. kinda like laggy I guess you could call it. I read the doc and it said to enable DMA via the command:
"hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 [cdrom] "
my line looks like this: "hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 /mnt/cdrom"
and it gives me a uh oh saying "/mnt/cdrom not supported by hdparm"
This is running on an athlon 1.47 ghz, 512 ddr, geforce 4 ti4600 (gainward golden sample), maxtor 20g, ata 133 7200 rpm, SB live! 5.1, kg7 RAID. The DVD drive itself is a creative "ovation" 16x. I'm gonna look through the help thing, but I doubt it'll help much .. I'm afraid I just wasted $$ on the dvd drive.
Most likely you just need to try a different vo output.
And don't doubt your new dvd, you didn't waste money. I have just a 900mhz machine with a ATI Xpert 98 8MB video card with 512 Megs of RAM, Pioneer 10x DVD drive and mine works like a charm.
Well, I tried to -xv vo thing or whatever, I checked to see that my setup supported it, but alas nothing seems to work. Just constant jerkiness.. it freezes every other second. I have the latest nvidia drivers... although I did remember getting a warning about GLX or something, even though Ut2k3 works flawlessly.
nope, neither of those work Looks like I'm screwed, I have no clue why either. I tried disabling sound as well and that had no effect on it, so at least that narrows it down a bit.
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