dvd skipping

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i've finally got my dvds playing under xine and ogle. but now i have a couple of problems. initially, i had some pretty nasty video with it skipping way to much. in my attempt to fix that i did a

hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd

that seemed to clear up the majority of it. however, it is still very noticable. is there something else i can do? also, how do i make that stick? i have to type it in every time.

one more thing. when i use ogle, the video is a bit smoother so i would prefer to use it. the problem is, i have no sound with ogle. any ideas?

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 3:13 pm Post subject:

Hmm... DVDs run under X, so moving to Desktop forum.
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Mr. Ust · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 45

I think the best place for this is inside /etc/conf.d/local.start

I have the following code in there:

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

thanks for the info. i'll give that a whirl when i get off work!

trolley · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 292 Location: Canada

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

hdparm /dev/hdX

will give you the states of the various flags.

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i've set everything up for dma, but the video is still choppy. i know its not the computer cuz when i was running suse it was clear as a bell. anything else?

nbensa · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 4:55 pm Post subject:

Ok, what about ide-scsi?

I have my CDRW and DVD in /dev/hda /dev/hdb but those devices dissapear when using ide-scsi making hdparm useless.

How do I change settings for /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1?

TIA,
Norberto

smtanner · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 7:58 pm Post subject:

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

well dma mode gets rid of some of the skipping but it is still quite unwatchable. there has to be something else i can do. it has worked fine with (gulp) other distros!

Mr. Ust · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 45

I suggest looking at the ogle documentation and FAQ for better details. Try a different dvd player such as vlc. You can also try copying the dvd to your hard disk. If you put it in /mnt/c/video_ts for example, you can get ogle to play it from the hard drive using

smtanner · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 2:00 am Post subject:

I don't know if this could have some effect so this is just a shot in the dark. Are you using Alsa or kernel modules for sound? Were you using the same sound modules with the "other distros"? What does it say in the xine setup audio tab for "audio driver to use"? Is that what you are using. What video card do you have and what video driver is xine using? Look in the xine setup video tab. Mine says "Xv" in the "video driver to use" section. What does yours say.

smtanner · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 2:05 am Post subject:

It must be something with your configuration. I just tried playing a DVD and the playback was smooth with xine. Much smoother that when I was using Suse anyways.

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

my video card is an ati rage mobility.

xine says audio driver is oss and my video driver is XShm.

the sound comes off ok. it is the video that sux.

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

There is some nastiness with Rage cards and XFree 4.2. What worked well under RH 7.2 (XF 4.1) is borked in 4.2. The xfree mailing lists have several items in this regard. Hopefully things are better with 4.3(?)

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

does that mean i'm screwed or are there fixes? i'm not giving up just yet. everything else just works too well.

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

I cannot use xine or mplayer without bringing down my X server and/or kernel! Tried to revert to 4.1 but the ebuilds were not OK when I tried (too old I guess). I'm waiting for the next XFree.

smtanner · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 2:57 am Post subject:

Not sure if this will help but just for kicks try starting xine with

xine -V Xv

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

no such luck. here is what i got...

tvmode: cannot connect to nvtvd - no TV mode switching available
Display is not using Xinerama.
tvmode: not connected to nvtvd for switching
video_out_xv: Xv extension is present but I couldn't find a usable yuv12 port.
Looks like your graphics hardware driver doesn't support Xv?!
load_plugins: video output plugin /usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_vo_out_xv.so: init_video_out_plugin failed.
main: video driver <Xv> failed

smtanner · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 5:28 am Post subject:

Hmm. Looks like the driver you are using does not support Xv. Look at

gatos.sourceforge.net

for drivers which should allow you to get Xv working. Your really need to use Xv to get smooth playback. Look in particular at the ati.2 project link on that site. I don't know if this is in portage or not as I use an nvidia card.

smtanner · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 5:34 am Post subject:

It is in portage (called ati-gatos) but it is masked for some reason.

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El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

I got DVD working on my ATi Radeon without GATOS drivers. When i tried to use GATOS drivers it kept giving me errors about my kernel module for DRI being too old, and when i tried to update the kernel modules, it did nothing.

Malakin · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 12:18 am Post subject:

smtanner · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 1:19 am Post subject: