Two basic DVD/Xine questions, as I acquaint myself with my new DVD Burner.

1) When watching DVDs via Xine, how do I revert to the DVD movie menu? I know, a silly question, but I can't find the option in Xine.

If I'm watching a clip from a certain chapter, for example, and want to stop it and go back to the menu (not xine menu, the movie menu), what do I do? Right now, I'm hitting stop and the DVD starts from the beginning, with the FBI warning, etc. I just want to quickly jump back in to the menu.

2) How do I get rid of jumpy video. Right now, doing the following works, but on each reboot I find I have to do it again.

In order to get rid of jumpy DVD, from root I type:
hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd

This does the trick. I even added:
hdparm -d1 /dev/dvdram (which points to /dev/dvd, to be safe).

But, each reboot, the change doesn't stick.

Thanks,
Rory

don't know what distro you're running (always nice to put that bit of info in), but you can slap that command in one of your rc scripts. redhat/fedora provides a script called rc.local, usually found in /etc/rc.d, where that's the last boot up script before getting the login prompt. if you're using redhat/fedora, just put that hdparm line in the rc.local script.

what happens when playing a dvd if you right click on the player or the viewer and choose Menu and one the options in the Menu submenu?

re: permanently setting hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd
Oh, sorry about that. SuSE 9.1.

re: triggering DVD menu.
Okay, those sub-menus worked. By their titles, I didn't think they had anything to do with what I was looking for. Thanks. Doh!

from what i've googled, it looks like suse puts start up scripts in /etc/init.d.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...oto=nextnewest

there's talk there about doing it. but have you checked yast? check that first. there may be settings in yast that will do what you're looking to do.

Thanks. Found it in YaST under IDE DMA Mode. I changed it to UltraDMA/33 as default. Other options were UltraDMA/16 and DMA On. I have an LG 12x DVD Burner (4120B).

Not sure what there difference are between those settings. Do you know? In any case, it's working now when I reboot.

Thanks for your help! Appreciate it!

Rory

the nitty gritty differences between the two? i don't know. but in general if you're choosing between udma/16 and udma/33, you want udma/33. udma/33 runs at a higher frequency (i think 33 Mhz compared to 16 Mhz).