[ltp] Slow DVD playback on T20

[Hans-Göran Puke]

Thanks Michael, I will look into it this weekend and report back.
/Hans-Göran

Michael Reinsch wrote:

>Hi!
>
>On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:09:21 +0100
>Hans-Göran Puke <hgp@home.se> wrote:
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>>I have a Thinkpad T20 with a DVD-ROM and 256 MB of RAM, on which I run
>>Mandrake Linux 9.0. (This Thinkpad uses a Savage IX/MV chip for
>>graphics). When playing a DVD, the playback is choppy (it stops for a
>>short while every other second or so), regardless of whether I run in
>>full-screen mode or in a window; regardless of whether I use xine,
>>mplayer or ogle and regardless of if I enable dma on the dvd-player or
>>not. My XF86config-4 setting is using 16 bits per pixel as
>>recommended.
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>Works for me.
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>I'm running Mandrake Cooker - but I don't remember having problems with
>it for quite a long time. No special stuff or actions required. But
>maybe check my page at http://mr.uue.org/gnulinux/t20/, though I'm not
>sure if it helps.
>
>Did you test with any other movies like video cds or DivX/XviD? Are they=

>running OK? If they are OK, you could try copying a small part from a
>DVD to your hard disk and see if it runs OK as well.
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>If you're brave enough, you could also try updating to Mandrake 9.1rc2 -=

>or wait for some days until 9.1 is released and try again.
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