If you have choppy video, make sure your dvd-rom has DMA enabled. I installed one last night, and the video was very choppy. It turns out that it was using PIO instead of DMA. After getting DMA to work on it, it works flawlessly, completely smooth. I use ogle under gentoo: emerge media-video/ogle It installs the decss libs and everything. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: florin at iucha.net [mailto:florin at iucha.net] > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 10:53 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Best Distro/App for DVD playback > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:11:36AM -0600, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > > TCLUGers, > > > > I have a box that I use because I am > > too cheap to buy a DVD player. While > > that may change in the future, for now > > I get hours of enjoyment tinkering with > > it, but those hours do not come from a > > neverending supply, so I ask these > > questions. > > > > Is there a Linux distribution that is better > > suited/comes with DVD playback stuff, > > or is there an app that will do it for any > > disto? > > > > The box is: > > K6-2 450 > > 384MB SDRAM > > 4GB HDD > > 16X DVDROM > > Voodoo3 3000 w/video out > > > > Is this box too weak for this task? > > Yes. (I have a similar machine with K6-III/500 MHz). > > > If so, where is the weakest point, in your > > opinion? > > CPU and/or video drivers. > > The same machine plays DVD's just fine in windows with any > ATI board and ATI DVD player (ATI boards have hardware > accelerated mpeg decoding - too bad they don't make that > available on Linux), but for pure software decoding, > you need a 700 MHz class machine. Or a supported hardware > decoding (that is an additional pci board that you route > your video signal thru and it replaces a big blue rectangle > on the screen with the movie - unfortunately, it alters the > overall image quality : the ATI decoder has much better > contrast and colors than the Creative DXR3 card I have). > > > It may be just too weak because it > > does work under w98se and w2kp, > > but video is choppy (moreso under > > w2kp). > > > > Any advice for easy DVD playback > > (so my wife can use it too) would be > > appreciated. > > Upgrade mobo/cpu. I just paid $160 at newegg.com for a > Duron 1.2 GHz / ECS K7S5A (it works with PC100 RAM). > > florin > > -- > > "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." > > 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 >