[MPlayer-users] mplayer and preemptible kernel

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 29 October 2002, Jeremy Brenner wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> > >From what I read on the linux kernel mailing list, ide-scsi does not
> > support dma. I suspect it never will as the only things that use it
> > (programs that need direct access to cd-rom/cd-rw etc. hardware) will
> > have a new interface to use in the next stable release. Oh, and the new
> > IDE code (>2.5.somethingorother) can have both ide-cd and ide-scsi
> > loaded for the same device.
> 
> wow... thats great... my cpu usage when burning or ripping at 40x is
> ludicrous.  I almost payed another 100$ for the scsi version because of
> this.  Its sad that a windows install would actually perform better
> burning cds than my gentoo install.

BTW: It seems that latest cdrecord supports burning via atapi, so no need
to use scsi emulation anymore. Just my 0.02 EUR. :-)

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