Play a DVD to slow

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:34:16 -0500, Steve wrote:

> On 1/3/06, João Paulo Sousa <joao.paulo.sousa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I have instaled ubuntu 5.10 on a laptop Acer 1691 (1,6 Ghz centrino, 512mb,
>> ATI X600), and i have configured fglrx 3D acceleration, that works fine.
>> But, in i try play a DVD or divx with vlc, mplayer, totem is to slow.
>>
>>  Any sugestion?
>>
>>  Regards.
> 
> You will have to enable DMA for your drive. This might help:
> 
> http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/20/cd-rom-drive-too-slow/

On my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop this didn't solve the problem.  Totem was
using the gstreamer back end.  If you switched to the totem-xine back end
everything worked wonderfully.  You might try that.  


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