On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:57:03 -0700
Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
Hi guys. I know this is a bit off topic, but
I'm getting frustrated
beyond belief trying to get reasonable results from my DVD drives with
a newly installed ubuntu 9.10
The drives are both connected to a PATA interface (the only one on the
MB). My hard drives are all SATA.
All worked just fine on previous MBs and linux versions. Lastly had
Ubuntu 8.04 running.
My problem is that I know have very jerky video playback and slow
seeks and crashes. I've tried mplayer, totem and vlc. Vcl seems to
work best, but it's no star on this system.
I've tried uninstalling pulseaudio, but that makes no difference.
I've done a lot of reading of similar problems, but nothing seems to
vector in on this. The ubuntu forms haven't been much help either ...
just a lot of suggestions on trying different players, and installing
libcss2, etc. That doesn't seem to be the problem.
My guess is that it's a IRQ or DMA problem. I have no idea how to
diagnose this or fix.
So ... any ideas here????
The only suggestion I can come up with is in the past with 'weird'
problems of playback to check what dvd device is being pointed to in
the settings. i.e. /dev/dvd.
Note I have kubuntu 9.10 installed on a separate partition and am using
ubuntu 9.04 here. This works fine but I have issues with nvidia and
9.10 that I have not solved yet. One thing I am going to try is using
the xorg.conf file from 9.04 for the 9.10 installation see if that
helps, but I would check your /dev first. Had lots of problems in the
past because of that not being named correctly. (and no sorry, I don't
know what it should be) mine here according to vlc is
/dev/sr1
which I am surprised to find. But vlc plays everything without
problems so...
nepal.
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