[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD playback

[Rob Wallace]

This is the RedHat bad news I was talking about.

So... someone else is having the same problem! See my emails titled
"Bad news for RedHat 7.3 users"

I'm doing the same thing, running 2.4.18 under RH 7.2 - the best
solution was to return to the 2.4.9 kernel (bummer). Try it.



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Command line is:

mplayer -gui -skin plastic -vo x11 -aid 128 dvd://1

This causes the DVD to play using about 80% CPU (user).  Then, after
about 5-10 seconds it goes from 80% user / 0% system to 80% user / 20%
system and the audio starts going more and more out of sync.  If I hit
the left arrow (go back a couple of seconds), the 20% system disappears
and it plays fine for another 5-10 seconds.  Then it starts over.  The
only way to fix it is -framedrop which makes it kind of OK, with the
occasional skip during a panning shot.  I'm wondering if you guys have
any idea how I can stop it from doing this dumb CPU% thing when I run
without -framedrop.  I have tried turning DMA on for the DVD drive, but
it won't allow me (even as root).  Is this as good as DVD playback is
going to get on this laptop ?

Red Hat 7.2
kernel 2.4.18
glibc 2.2.4
XFree86 4.1.0
gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (prerelease/franzo/20011204)
GNU ld version 2.11.90.0.8 (with BFD 2.11.90.0.8)
GNU assembler 2.11.90.0.8