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

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 05-29 00:28, Adam Bultman wrote:
> 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.

Interesting. I tried the options above, and I get:

# hdparm -d1 -c3 -k1 /dev/hda
 
/dev/hda:
 setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 3
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 setting keep_settings to 1 (on)
 I/O support  =  3 (32-bit w/sync)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  1 (on)

I get the same result on the DVD drive. Do I need to recompile kernel? This
is the kernel "out of the box" from a RedHat 7.3 install.

Also, my main drive is 7200 RPM (Maxtor 40GB 133/7200).  Which card are you
talking about, BTW?

Cheers,
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