"Stuttering" DVD Playback

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 18:06 +0100, paroxetine at mmhmm.org wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am using Xine to playback DVDs. The problem I am having is that while playing
> the DVD, there is a constant stuttering that occurs. This problem does not
> happen in Windows but it is happening in my Ubuntu installation (and may or may
> not happen in other Linux distributions--I would not know because I only have
> Ubuntu installed).
> 
> Anyone have any tips on solving this problem? Thanks in advance.
> 
> /Edwin
> 
Try this and see if it helps:
        sudo hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc


(You may have to change /dev/hdc to either /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd
depending on how your DVD device is connected.)

Ziyad.