[CLUE-Tech] which DVD software do you use?

[Adam Bultman]

Make sure you run hdparm.  You won't get very good performance out of it
if you don't run hdparm on your DVD drive, and your hard drives.  Linux
uses your hard drives heavily when decoding.  I run hdparm from rc.local
on my systems:

hdparm -d1 -c3 -k1 /dev/[drive]

That will speed things up significantly.  I also noticed that things run
much better if your main drive is 7200 RPM and not 5400 RPM (seriously).
I switched, and with hdparm, and my card, it runs flawlessly.

-- 
Adam Bultman
adam at glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]


On Tue, 28 May 2002, Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> On 05-28 15:46, Adam Bultman wrote:
> > I enjoy using VLC.  Videolan client.  Otherwise, Xine is a good one, it's
> > pretty useful. If you have a slow machine, use VLC. I run mine on a 500,
> > and Xine and Ogle play too slowly.  VLC supports menus now, and has the
> > littlest overhead.
>
> I was going to ask about this, too, since I finally own a machine that has a
> DVD drive in it. I noticed both Ogle and Xine (under RH 7.3, on an Athlon XP
> 2100+) were far too jerky. Is there any way to alleviate this? I'm currently
> installing FreeBSD on the same box, but I'm wondering if I'm going to be
> able to get smooth play w/o some kind of hardware decoder.
>
>