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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:28:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net>
To:        Robert Golovniov <g-r-v@ukr.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Playing DVD
Message-ID:  <20040313142042.B57871@sotec.home>
In-Reply-To: <200403131750.i2DHoBbS015321@gw.core>
References:  <200403131750.i2DHoBbS015321@gw.core>

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Robert Golovniov wrote:

> Hello FreeBSD,
>
>   I've  followed  the  instruction  in  the handbook regarding playing
>   DVDs,  but  the  playback  is  still  not as smooth as I had it when
>   running on a Windows box. What steps can be taken to achieve a still
>   better quality?

Have you enabled DMA on the DVD drive?  It is turned off by default,
and makes the drive really slow.  If not, add

 hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"

to /boot/loader.conf to enable DMA at next reboot.  You can also
manually enable DMA with "atacontrol mode".  See atacontrol(8).

   $.02,
   /Mikko



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