From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Jan 19 0:31:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from www.evil.2y.net (ip-216-23-54-242.adsl.one.net [216.23.54.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512CF37B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:31:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by www.evil.2y.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0J8hqi07792; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:43:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:43:52 -0500 From: Coleman Kane To: Marc van Kempen Cc: Coleman Kane , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD playback Message-ID: <20010119034352.B7735@cokane.yi.org> References: <20010117131850.A3402@cs.mcgill.ca> <3A670CA9.EEC14186@bowtie.nl> <20010118223509.B6278@cokane.yi.org> <3A67E28C.F7365861@bowtie.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3A67E28C.F7365861@bowtie.nl>; from marc@bowtie.nl on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:45:38AM -0500 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org set hw.atamodes to dma for the DVD device. I think the syntax is: [dev1m],[dev1s],[dev2m],[dev2s],... where each [dev??] can be either pio or dma. Ex: hw.atamodes=dma,---,dma,pio. (--- means not connected). Marc van Kempen had the audacity to say: > Coleman Kane wrote: > > > > Strange. I have a K6-2 400Mhz wkstation with XF86 4.0, Matrox MGA G200 AGP card > > and 128M RAM, and it didn't drop many frames from the movie trailers I used to > > test it from the disc that came with the player. I don't know if they are the > > same quality as the actual DVD movies or not though. Your player is using PIO4 > > which causes the CPU to wait a lot and causes it to be the gateway from memory > > to DVD and vice versa. Mine is using UDMA2. > > Is there anything I can do to get it to use UDMA2? > > Regards, > Marc. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message