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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:
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> 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

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