On 07/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Francesco Peeters</b> <<a href="mailto:francesco@fampeeters.com">francesco@fampeeters.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 22:20 +0000, Razza wrote:<br>> Can someone running MythDora on an EPIA M1000, please publish their<br>> Xorg.conf where they are running just a VGA output?<br>><br>> I have really terrible performance with DVD playback, always jerky but<br>
> sometimes playback stutters badly. My Xorg.conf is as follows, if<br>> anyone can see anything wrong.<br>><br>> I have 256MB of Memory installed - I assume this is sufficient for a<br>> Frontend only?<br>
><br>> Thanks in advance!<br>><br>I never succeeded in getting my EPIA to play a DVD without stuttering,<br>even though all the rest of Myth ran fine on it...<br><br>I even tried putting in an nVidia card, just to ensure I was using a<br>
proper hardware MPEG decoder... ;-)<br><br>I personally think it is something related to the Mobo busses, but I'd<br>love to be proven wrong... Might give that unused EPIA board a new<br>use... <G><br></blockquote>
</div><br>I have no problem playing DVDs on my EPIA M10000 using xine or mplayer. As was suggested earlier, you should make sure the DMA is enabled for the DVD drive. Run hdparm to check this, e.g.:<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"># hdparm /dev/hdc</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/dev/hdc:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> IO_support = 1 (32-bit)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> unmaskirq = 1 (on)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> using_dma = 1 (on)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> keepsettings = 0 (off)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> readonly = 0 (off)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> readahead = 256 (on)</span><br><br><br>if using_dma is not set to 1, then use <br><br><span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc</span><br>
<br>to enable it.<br></span><span class="smaller"><br></span>