Ogle is twitchy when playing DVDs

Ekkume · 05-06-2005, 01:21 AM

I have a system with a Sempron 2400 and 512 MB RAM, so it is reasonably fast for a Linux box. I would expect that it should be able to play DVDs smoothly, but ogle twitches.

Can anyone recommend something that will play DVDs smoothly?

Would it help to compile Ogle?
Totem just complains that there are on imput translators,
or shows kaleidoscope colors when I try to play DV or AVI.

Ekkume

musicman_ace · 05-06-2005, 02:01 AM

I've used Xine and Mplayer and both have always worked fine. One thing before you give up on ogle, does you DVD-rom have DMA enabled? if not, type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc assuming that hdc is your DVD-rom.

Ekkume · 05-06-2005, 02:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by musicman_ace
I've used Xine and Mplayer and both have always worked fine. One thing before you give up on ogle, does you DVD-rom have DMA enabled? if not, type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc assuming that hdc is your DVD-rom.

Thanks. I found some instructions in their faq about how to deal with choppiness
when using a VIA chipset, which is what I happen to have. I have to enable DMA
in a certain way with this chipset. (ogle faq, entry 44)

Ekkume