coverup Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 On my 10.1 box, DVD playback using kaffeine and xine is a bit rough - you can notice that the picture is jerky and sound interrupts are regular. Playback in mplayer is a lot better, which makes me think that I should be able to get the same playback quality from kaffeine and xine. Could anybody give an advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Could be a sound problem. Or a harware problem. Or a codec problem :) We need some more information. What settings do you use now? Is dma enabled on your hraddrive? What audio out are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted June 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 1. I did have a problem with sound: the default driver was not giving any sound out, I switched to i810_audio. Alsaconf stubbornly refuses to recognise my card SoundMax Cadenza saying "No supported PnP or PCI card found". Other than that, I do have sound though not of the best quality. Since the playback in mplayer of way better quality, I doubt this is a sound poroblem. 2. Here is the output of hdparm # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 312581808, start = 0 I tried to enable dma, and got this # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) Could this be related to a problem with my SATA drive not being recognized as such by 10.1 and being regarded as hda? As for settings/audio out, could you please be more specific? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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