Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 08:23:43 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "William Dean DeVries" <william_devries@wsu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD Message-ID: <oprydgttg80cf2rk@mail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20031109090520.GC25990@res241015.resnet.wsu.edu> References: <20031109034939.76f247b9.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <20031109090520.GC25990@res241015.resnet.wsu.edu>
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:05:20 -0800, William Dean DeVries <william_devries@wsu.edu> wrote: > Maybe some program is starting a sound daemon, like esd or > something. If you started gnome or kde or possible anything else this > may be the case. You should maybe use run 'ps aux' and see what is > running when the sound doesn't work. If you have a sound daemon running > it should be possible to make mplayer use it. > You could try 'shutdown now'(it will quit all you programs) which > will drop your system into single user mode after you mplayer's sound > quits and then type 'exit'. I never reboot unless I have to. If the > works after-wards its probably something using the sound device. You > really should't be using root for anything but maintenance(ie watching > movie should probably be done as a user). > > --James > >> Here is the output from dmesg on my DVD >> acd0: DVD-ROM <IDE DVD-ROM 16X> at ata1-master PIO4 >> Using FreeBSD 4.8 >> When I play a DVD with mplayer (usually with these options) >> mplayer -brightness 9 -autosync 30 -dvd 1 /dev/dvd >> I can play the DVD without ANY problems what so ever. The problem is >> this. Say I just booted into FreeBSD, did a startx, loged into root and >> ran mplayer with those options. It will play fine and no sound problem. >> After a couple hours or so (using those same commands usually) I can >> still play the DVD but no sound. If I reboot *AFTER* the sound problem >> then I get the sound back. There are no other applications running at >> the same time to block the audio so I don't know what it could be. Other >> than this small problem, DVD is working pretty good so far for me under >> FreeBSD. You may get better performance from your DVD player if you include the following line in /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" Try it and see. If it causes a problem you can edit it out. Jud
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