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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:40:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <bjarne@mekanix.dk>
Cc:        mekanix@vip.cybercity.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dma-trouble
Message-ID:  <200104261040.f3QAeC046264@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20010426112328.5adbf42f.bjarne@mekanix.dk> "from Bjarne Wichmann Petersen at Apr 26, 2001 11:23:28 am"

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It seems Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:52:25 +0200 (CEST)
> Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
> > Are you using DMA on the DVD drive ? if not try to enable it but its
> > not garantied to work unfortunately (depends on hardware support
> > for ATAPI DMA working)
> 
> $ sysctl hw.atamodes
> hw.atamodes: dma,dma,dma,dma,
> 
> Should be enabled.
> 
> Copying off the drive and it reads with ~13 MB/s but playing a VOB-file
> it's down to ~2 MB/s. And if I try to copy at the same time with playback
> it's still down to ~2 MB/s and the playback halts.

Wierd, there is no way xine can change the speed of the drive, the
ATA driver has no hooks for that :)

However, a fast drive could also be a problem in that it is forced 
to reseek often because it gets ahead of what you want to read,
that will have a big impact on streaming speed...

-Søren

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