[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD Playback problems (lots of info provided...)

[Phil Dibowitz]

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Phil, I'm in that case too. I have AMD 1.4 GHz, Geforce 4 and recent
> DVD player.
> 
> could you check 'hdparm /dev/hdx' output and check if using_dma is
> 1(on) ?
> on some distributions, this is disabled by default and you must set it
> explicitely into /etc/sysconfig/harddisk*.
> 

OK, so Shaun emailed me this directly, and I kinda said "yeah I did 
that"... but it occured to me that perhaps the -I ouput wasn't the 
same... and what do you know... it's not. So now I have set up both my 
HD and my DVD to 'using_dma=1' and since Debian doesn't have 
/etc/sysconfig, I made an init script to do it for me on boot each time.

So that leaves me with a few questions:

1. I'm now using:
gmplayer -ao oss -vo xv -cache 8192
and playback is much better... but audio is still fractionally behind 
video. It's rather annoying. I've tried -ao alsa9 and get the same 
result. So I guess that's:
   1a. Anyone know which is better: alsa9 or oss?
   1b. Anyone know how to fix my video sync probs.

2. If I choose a specific 'chapter' (instead of just saying "DVD -> open 
disk") then mplayer shows a bunch of garbled video and then crashes and 
says "mplayer crashed, this shouldn't happen" I will submit a core 
either now if someone really wants, or if not then after I get 
video/audio sync problems cleared up.

3. How come I can't get MENUs like on a tv-based DVD player or a win or 
mac DVD player? Am I missing something obvious? I don't see this option 
and playing the DVD from mplayer skips the menus and foes straight to 
the first scene.

Thanks everyone,
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