Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:42:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: German Tischler <tanis@gaspode.franken.de> Cc: Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow DVD? Message-ID: <200109011042.f81AgBL49799@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20010901123414.A1694@gaspode.franken.de> "from German Tischler at Sep 1, 2001 12:34:14 pm"
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It seems German Tischler wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:00:04PM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote: > > I have been disappointed so far with just about all the DVD playback options > > available, but I believe I have an explanation now. > > > > I have a relatively old DVDROM drive. The virtue of it is that it's > > regionless. Here's what the kernel has to say: > > > > cd1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 > > cd1: <PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-303 1.09> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device > > cd1: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8) > > Do you see a performance difference between > vlc directly reading a DVD and vlc reading an mpeg file > on a DVD mounted as a filesystem ? I think the problem is that if the DVD drive is too fast, it will read beyond what we need, the problem is then that we need to seek and that is painfully slow on CD devices, hence the "hickup". I've seen it work much better if the drives speed is set to 1, then things seem to stream nice and easy... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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