Multimedia Hell :-/

[albi at scii.nl]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:15:17 +0000
david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> I was using Xine yesterday (on Hoary) and was wondering why the dvd
> playback was SO choppy. Then I discovered that DMA was switched OFF on
> both cd-roms. (Easy to switch on - but why switched off by default?)

FYI, xine has a little commandline tool : xine-check
to see whether you can improve xine-performance