Re: Problems with german GameStar DVD

Sat Jun 29 2002, Julian Scheel wrote:
> Some new problems...
> I tested now with some more DVDs. (Men in Black, The Hard Way, "Was
> Frauen wollen" - don't know the english title. All in german
> versions) With all these DVDs playback is very bad. About 1 or 2
> seconds the video plays fine, but then there is a break for about 5
> to 10 seconds. 

5 to 10 seconds is extreamly long breaks.  are you sure you managed to
compile everything correctly.  Might have picked up some code from
an old version or something.  What distrubution is this, can you
use one of the binary packages?

> This with all these DVDs exactly the same. The
> Output, I get at every break looks like this:
> ---
> xrun_recovery
> odelay error: File descriptor in bad state
> Debug[ogle_audio]: 1.+525087760 s off, resyncing
> odelay error: File descriptor in bad state
> ---
> 
Ok so it's something with your setup rather than the DVDs.

What sound card is this?
You do have DMA, unmaks irq and other relevant option turned on on your
DVD drive right?
Could you give us the output from 'hdparm /dev/dvd'

> With the GameStar DVDs I haven't this problem.
> Changing odelay to clock resolves the messages about odelay, but playback is 
> bad as before.

Well clock should sync agains the system realtime clock rather than against
the audio cards clock.  With 5 to 10 second breaks I doubt that is the
problem.

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Håkan Hjort