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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:52:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@vip.cybercity.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dma-trouble
Message-ID:  <200104260852.f3Q8qQa19950@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200104260831.KAB41824@usr01.cybercity.dk> "from Bjarne Wichmann Petersen at Apr 26, 2001 10:33:49 am"

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It seems Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:46:07 +0200
> Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote:
> 
> > Xine skips a lot of frames though but it's not due a slow CPU, it only
> > eats up 50%-60%. Rest is idling.
> 
> I think I've spotted the bottleneck. But I don't know how to fix it.
> 
> Playing off the dvd-drive and I get a thoroughput at ~2MB/s. Copying off
> the dvd-drive it's up to about ~20-25 MB/s (UDMA33). And playing off the
> harddrive CPU becomes the bottleneck (as it should) and thus only skips a
> "few" frames.
> 
> Copying and playing of the dvd-drive simultaniously gives a thoroughput at
> ~2MB/s and makes movies unplayable. It's as if xine fix the drive at a to
> slow speed (1x?). Can I fix this somehow?

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)

-Søren

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