On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:57:03 -0700 Bob van der Poel <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
