Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:22:30 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: playing DVD works Message-ID: <200203262122.g2QLMZt51205@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <3CA0DD21.7040806@gmx.net>
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It seems Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Mathew Kanner wrote: > > Just a note to the list to say that playing DVDs does indeed > > work. I borrowed my friends Austin Powers DVD and tried to play it. > > I installed the CVS version of mplayer (from last night) > > > > mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/acd1c -cache 20960 > > I never knew that the "cache" parameter existed. :) I already get smooth > playback with -cache 512, but I really wonder why the software needs to > precache in order to achieve full framerate. The dvd-drive is an atapi > triple-speed and I never had problems getting full framerate on the same > machine with the same drive in Linux or Windows (and yes, UDMA is on), > so maybe there is some kind of inefficiency/weirdness in ata causing all > the trouble? Are there any means to influence read-ahead-caching and the > like via sysctl? *BSD doesn't do readhead, and neither does any of the drivers AFAIK... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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