i am running vlc in linux i emerge it at it compiled fine but i have a problem when i play a dvd i plays slow... and the laptop gets real slow it seemd its consuming all the lap capabilities and dont know why im running gentoo on a dell with 2 gb ram and 2 ghz centrino

also i cant play divx on vlc i installed divx for linux but cant see the divx in vlc

what video drivers are you using??

im using nvidia
and i emerge divx4linux

i also have the problem that i get no sound from dvd

i got this error when playing a dvd with vlc

[00000217] main audio output error: couldn't find a filter for the conversion
[00000217] main audio output error: couldn't set an input pipeline

can see video but no audio

the only thing you need to play divx are codecs. i am using xine and mplayer on my laptop and totem on a pc. codecs can be found on mplayer website and should be put in /usr/lib/win32.

if dvd's play slowly in everything ( or anything disk related ) recheck your kernel configuration for your ide chipset support ( make sure you exact chipset is enabled or DMA will not work).

i checked my kernel configuration and i think i have my correct chipset
just to make sure how do i check whick my correct chipset is?

if this not the problem what else could it be?

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0185 (rev a4)


this is my output from "lspci", you can see on the 5th line my ide controller is a sis 5513 chipset. to check if DMA is enabled or not, do ( as root):

hdparm -d /dev/XXX

replace XXX with the device ( I usually just throw in /dev/hda, if it doesn't have DMA enabled due to your chipset support absent from the kernel none of your other IDE devices will either).

0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)

root@matrix matrix # hdparm -d /dev/cdroms/cdrom0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0:
using_dma = 0 (off)


how do i turn dma on i dont see any intel 82801fbm support in kernel

what kernel are you using? do you have the PIIX chipset compiled in?

im using 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 kernel
and yes i have the pIIxn in kernel

must be missing something, found a laptop running Fedora Core 3 with that chipset that claims it works perfectly, put that chipset name and linux in google and see what you can find.

i found that i need to install the new pci.ids i have the file but i dont know how to install it