[MPlayer-users] fine tunning Mplayer

[Marius Schaefer/Camberg/ISBAC]

Hi, 
mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu wrote on 11.08.2004 13:44:50:
> Marius Schaefer/Camberg/ISBAC wrote:
> 
> >I once had a similar problem, I solved it by disabling USB in BIOS 
Setup 
> >or using other usb modules in my kernel.
> >
> Well, USB support is disabled in my kernel, But I disablied the usb bios 

> option as well.
> Still, I have the same problem.
> 
> I'm betting for a disk access problem, this morning I copied a file 
> throught samba onto the disk while playing music. The result was that 
> the music becomes extremely jerky.
> 
> Is it possible that linux / mplayer has problem with disk access slowing 

> up the system ???
> 
> Gis.

You should make sure, your kernel has the right driver module for your 
controler and you have DMA activated. (hdparm, should be somewhere in the 
docs).

Marius Schäfer