Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:01:39 -0600 From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG> To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@vip.cybercity.dk> Cc: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, nicolai@petri.cc, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is MTRR? ... and slow xine. Message-ID: <200104262101.f3QL1dU22697@revolt.poohsticks.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:59:00 %2B0200." <200104262059.f3QKxNY89733@usr05.cybercity.dk>
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In message <200104262059.f3QKxNY89733@usr05.cybercity.dk>, mekanix@vip.cybercit
y.dk writes:
>I've got it working... somewhat now. The fix was to mount the disc at play
>the file through the path ('xine /cdrom/bla/bla.vob' instead of 'xine
>dvd://bla.vob').
>
>Now, why can't xine handle direct access to to the dvd-drive?
The operating system can (and does) readahead and be smart about things.
Single threaded applications (I'm guessing here) can't easily.
The obvious solution is to let the operating system do its operating system
things, rather than trying to duplicate them in programs like xine...
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